Joseph Bertrand v. Charles Sava, Laissez-Moi Vigile v. Charles Sava

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, District Judge:

The questions presented arise from judicial review of discretionary decisions by a District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) to deny parole to unadmitted aliens1 who are detained pending the completion of proceedings to consider their applications for political asylum and their exclusion. The INS District Director for the New York area, Charles Sava, denied the parole requests of fifty-three unadmitted Haitian aliens. On petitions for the writ of habeas corpus, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York…