Come ON. We fought a revolutionary war over such abuses. We wrote habeas corpus into our Constitution. This is INTOLERABLE.
Martha near Seattle, 8647
Orolua Eluonyechie has been held in immigration detention for more than two years. He filed a habeas petition to be released, but it sat for nine months without ever being reviewed. “It is a black hole. Nobody is paying attention to him,” his lawyer says.
Louisiana has more ICE lockups than almost any other state. Now as a surge in habeas petitions overloads courts, people are held “unfathomably” long without recourse.
