As seen in the New
York Times:
A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled yesterday that the
government has wide latitude under immigration law to detain noncitizens on
the basis of religion, race or national origin, and to hold them
indefinitely without explanation.The ruling came in a class-action lawsuit by Muslim immigrants detained
after 9/11, and it dismissed several key claims the detainees had made
against the government. But the judge, John Gleeson of United States
District Court for the Eastern District of New York, allowed the lawsuit to
continue on other claims, mostly that the conditions of confinement were
abusive and unconstitutional.
You know, I thought that the Bill of Rights was intended to describe certain
inalienable rights that inherently exist — not to prescribe the narrow set
of rights that the government grants only to citizens.
I guess I was mistaken.