30 May Habeas Corpus and the Immigration Detention of Non-citizen, The Lawyer’s Daily (May 30, 2018)
Immigration detentions of non-citizens must only be for an immigration-related purpose. Undoubtedly, a detention is never pleasant. However, it is not the detention itself, or even its length, that is objectionable, but its unlawfulness. Often non-citizens are being detained on a faulty factual premise, inadvertent...