How can the United States deport an illegal alien who has no home? The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the United States can detain aliens for as long as it takes to find a place to deport them. According to the opinion, the petitioner, Kestutis Zadvydas, has lived in the United States since 1956, but he never became a citizen. He ran up a criminal rap sheet making him deportable under immigration law. Not knowing where to send him, the INS has held him since 1994.
August 23, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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How can the United States deport an illegal alien who has no home?
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not solve this riddle in its Aug. 11 opinion in Zadvydas v. Lynne Underdown, but it did hold that the United States can detain aliens for as long as it takes to find a place to deport them.
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