Word: detentionã
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Consider the “preventive detention?? of thousands of Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants under an alarming cloak of secrecy. It is telling that the government still refuses to give a number for how many people were so detained, and how many stay so. Further, the USA PATRIOT Act allows the attorney general practically unchecked power in the treatment of noncitizens. He need merely proclaim to have “reasonable grounds” to believe “terrorist” activity has taken place to hold non-citizens indefinitely, a far cry from...
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