Judge Orders Islamic Fundraiser Deported
A federal immigration judge in Los Angeles has ordered Islamic charity fundraiser Abdel Jabber Hamdan deported. Hamdan has lived in Southern California for more than 20 years.
Hamden was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan. The Judge considerately didn't order him back there:
Judge Sitgraves said he could not be sent to Jordan, where he was born in a Palestinian refugee camp, because he would be at risk of torture by the Jordanian government because he has been accused by the American authorities of terror-related activities.
So where will we deport him to? This is one of the worst parts of our immigration system. People without a country end up in indefinite detention. The Supreme Court said in Zadvydas v. Davis in 2001 that if a person is not deported within 6 months after the order, the Government cannot continue to hold them. It issued a similar ruling a few months ago in a case involving Mariel Cubans.
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