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CIVIL-RIGHTS groups have welcomed a US judge’s ruling that detained immigrants must be brought before a judge within 10 days.
US District Judge Alison J Nathan said a law authorising the detention of immigrants while the Immigrations & Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency seeks to deport them “does not negate [immigrants’] interests — of the utmost importance — in freedom from imprisonment.
“Class members may not have a ‘fundamental right to be released during removal proceedings’ but nor does the government have an unfettered right to detain them,” she said.
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and union member, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls from National Nurses United to dismantle Ice and related agencies, says MARK GRUENBERG
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
