Cruz-Elias v. United States Attorney General

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

May the Attorney General indefinitely detain an excludable alien, who committed serious crimes within the United States while on immigration parole, but who has served his criminal sentence for those crimes, when there is no other country willing to accept him, and the Attorney General determines that he is unsuited for further immigration parole? This is the question presented by this petition for writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Because petitioner’s detention does not violate constitutional, statutory, or international law, the…