Posted on 11/26/2014 5:40:07 PM PST by artichokegrower
A Bay Area federal judge has given the go-ahead to a nationwide suit by thousands of immigrants who seek asylum in the United States and accuse the government of illegally keeping them in jail for months.
In rejecting the Obama administration’s attempt to dismiss the suit, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of Oakland ruled that federal law requires officials to decide within 10 days whether an undocumented immigrant has a “reasonable fear” of persecution or torture if deported. Immigrants are held without bail while awaiting those decisions.
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And yet we recently learned that Obama has somehow magically legally indemnified federal workers from lawsuits regarding the interception, warehousing, and distribution of illegal aliens across the United States. It’s in the freerepublic archives if anyone wishes to look it up.
Exactly. This would not be a problem if illegals were deported in an efficient and order manner
The judges will probably allow them to sue the American people as a whole. Each illegal alien will win, and collect a trillion dollars a piece, paid for by all of us. I am SOOOOOO cynical of the libtards, that I believe that is not out of the realm of possibility.
Kind of ironic that illegals are going to utilize the legal system to sue we citizens.
Obama.
President of Bizarro-world.
How could they have standing, they were not injured in a individualized manner.
YAY OBAMA! Always looking out for the American citizen...Oh wait.
Textbook Alinsky: overwhelm the system.
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