Legal Opinion
Chavez-Rivas v. Olsen
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided July 8, 2002No. Civil Action 01-1018PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
ORLOFSKY, District Judge.
I. Introduction
In this case, I must decide whether the INS has the authority to detain indefinitely certain non-resident aliens, including the so-called “Mariel Cubans,” and whether the procedures used in this case to-detain the petitioner, Valentin Chavez-Rivas, violated the Due Process Clause.
With compromise comes hard choices. Two decades ago, in 1980, the United States made the decision as a nation to allow over 100,000 refugees to emigrate from Cuba to our shores. 1 We tempered our welcome, however, by treating these Cuban immigrants as though they were…
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3Cited by9 opinions
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- Rolando M. Sierra, Sr. v. D. Romaine, Warden Immigration & Naturalization Service John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2003
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