Friday, August 12, 2005
Joke of the Day
Legally, anyone who presents a foreign passport at an American airport, even to make a connecting flight to another country, is seeking admission to the United States. If the government decides that the passenger is an "inadmissible alien," he remains legally outside the United States - and outside the reach of the Constitution - even if he is being held in a Brooklyn jail.
—Mary Mason, federal trial lawyer defending the government in the lawsuit filed by Canadian Maher Arar, whom the U.S. sent to Syria to be tortured
—Mary Mason, federal trial lawyer defending the government in the lawsuit filed by Canadian Maher Arar, whom the U.S. sent to Syria to be tortured
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