ICE returns to policy of lengthy detention of asylum seekers.

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

One of the first and one of the best thing s President Obama did when he first became President was to reverse the Bush-administration policy of detaining nearly all arriving-alien asylum seekers until their cases were adjudicated in the immigration court which I discussed here. His administration instead allowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release asylum-seeking aliens after they successfully completed a credible fear interview. As forĀ  arriving aliens with families or who were pregnant, the government would most often…