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
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