11. The court ruled that the government cannot keep a deportable alien in indefinite detention for lack of a country willing to receive him. 12. The decision said indefinite detention by immigration officials was not constitutional even if there was evidence that the immigrant behing held was dangerous. 13. The indefinite detention of those whose home countries will not take them has been a problem for years. 14. The majority, however, said dangerousness based on past convictions alone was not enough to justify indefinite detention. 15. The proposal for indefinite detention of immigrant suspects engendered the greatest opposition from civil libertarians both inside and outside of Congress. 16. The proposal for indefinite detention of immigrant suspects engendered the greatest opposition from civil libertarians both inside and outside Congress. 17. The seizure and indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, conducted largely in secret, is a unique twist in the annals of warfare. 18. They challenged the indefinite detention. 19. They have been convicted in the United States and have served their sentences, but they remain in indefinite detention. 20. To avoid that problem, the justices examined the laws and found nothing in the language or history to suggest that Congress authorized indefinite detention. |