Posted on 04/17/2014 4:27:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A federal judge in Oregon has found that an immigrant woman's constitutional rights were violated when she was held in jail without probable cause at the request of U.S. immigration authorities, one of several recent federal court decisions to scrutinize the practice of keeping people in jail after they're eligible for release so that they can be considered for deportation.
The rulings make it clear that local officials are not required to honor immigration authorities' requests that someone in custody continue to be held even though their original charges were resolved or they are eligible for bail, and that local jurisdictions may be held liable for doing so.
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So much for the “law of the land”. To the commies in the District of Corruption, “law of the land” means absolutely nothing. They’re nothing but a bunch of lawless bass turds up there running this joint. No wonder the country is so screwed up.
More fun in the land of anything goes.....
Gosh, if they were only hard working ranchers then we could do as we wished with them.
Not fair.
The legal crux of the case is that Immigration issues an informal “request” to hold, but doesn’t issue a real arrest warrant.
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