US: Asylum seekers who show credible fear not eligible for bond

April 17, 2019
Al Jazeera

...Angelo Guisado, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights, tweeted, "Mandating detention for what amounts to seeking asylum at the southern border is another instantiation of criminalizing migration. I find it perverse that we mandate detention (f***ing jail!) for what is at best a civil offense and is more aptly a place-of-birth violation." ...

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April 17, 2019