detention
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The Department of Homeland Security has the right to appeal the decision within 30 days so Guan remains in a New York detention center for now, said his lawyer, Chuangchuang Chen.
Even after Wednesday’s ruling in his favor, Mr. Guan still hasn’t been freed from detention as DHS is reserving the right to appeal.
While Congress and state legislatures have passed reform to soften criminal sentencing laws, immigration detention remains, technically, a civil jurisdiction and outside their scope.
From Salon
Rahman's arrest in 2024, which came after the player involved had alerted the authorities, was the first such detention of a Premier League official since it was established six years ago.
From Barron's
Sudani has also cooperated with the United States to bring into Iraq a caravan of Islamic State prisoners from Syria, where the army recently moved on Kurdish fighters who had run the detention camps.
From Barron's
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