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Flash forward a decade. Another Bush administration and another group on the naval base for the foreseeable future. Appeals have again reached the Supreme Court. This time, though, the high court has been siding with the detainees...
...oversight—after all, the high court upheld the right of enemy combatants to challenge their detentions in the Hamdi and Rasul rulings. But bear with me. This review is not about the Taliban fighters on Guantánamo now, but about the Haitian refugees who were the naval base’s unwilling tenants...
...lower court initially blocked him from sending the refugees back, Bush held them at Guantánamo. In the meantime, the federal appellate court in Atlanta ruled that the Haitians had no protection under American law because, at Guantánamo, they were outside the U.S. At the naval base, Immigration and Naturalization Service officials classified many of the escapees as “economic,” not “political,” refugees, and ordered their return. Human rights activists watched helplessly...
...without stopping at Guantánamo. In a defeat for the Yale team, the Supreme Court eventually upheld the Bush policy. Koh also had to juggle a separate case before Johnson that urged the release of the remaining HIV-positive refugees, including Pascal, from the squalid conditions on the naval base...
...behalf of Haitian refugees detained at Guantánamo Bay. The book began as a tale about America’s occasional betrayal of its age-old reputation as a haven for refugees. “After 9/11, it is also a cautionary tale about how we use our naval base at Guantanamo as an extralegal camp without accountability,” Goldstein says. The first Yale lawsuits were filed in 1992 when Goldstein was a third-year law student working on a project to help New Haven’s homeless population. Even though Koh was his mentor, Goldstein...