It's fun to blame Bush for this, but indefinite detention without trial has been INS SOP for a long time now.

Interestingly enough, I saw that part & I don't even watch the Practice (I didn't get a chance to change after "Alias" went off). However, I wonder if using lines from tv dramas to reinforce political statements is going to become the norm.

If so, I get dibbs on Andy Sipowicz! :)

well sorry but when I was getting deported back in 98 I seem to remember lots of funny asians and such like whose countries wouldn't take them back and who were as a consequence being held indefinitely.

Just to be clear- while the INS does detain people, sometimes indefinitately, for accusations of immigration violations, they have traditionally gotten some due process, such as meeting with lawyers and such.

The declaration of people being "persons of interest" was the post-911 innovation where lawyers wouldn't even be told who was arrested or for what reason. Kelley has actually had a number of good episodes attacking both the post-911 detentions and some really harsh attacks on other anti-criminal rights statutes.

It's BCIS now, technically.

bryan, nowadays repatriation is going strong. I believe the New York Times recently had a feature on forced repatriation of Vietnamese and Cambodians who had not been in those countries since they were old enough to talk.

yes, I know they've got their systemic glitch fixed. probably by now I know a statistically abnormal number of people that are dead.