Yet another step toward the police state

August 16th, 2005 – 10:06 pm
Tagged as: Rights

From the New York Times, via Making Light:

Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges, deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic necessities like food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday.

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