This diary is as much about rule of law as it is about immigration. The Bush Administration and their allies in Congress have taken it upon themselves to remove judicial oversight abroad in Guantanamo and in the gulag of secret prisons our nation has established in eastern Europe, Iraq and Afghanistan. While we were sleeping, they have started to do the same thing right here at home. The Department of Homeland Security detains more than 200,000 persons per year. Nobody knows exactly how many people are being detained, where, or under what conditions. And now, Congress is stripping federal circuit court oversight from the detention system right here in the U.S.
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