Sentence examples for authorizing detention from inspiring English sources

The provision authorizing detention does not apply narrowly to "a small segment of particularly dangerous individuals," say suspected terrorists, but broadly to aliens ordered removed for many and various reasons, including tourist visa violations.

But I am not presently persuaded that legislation authorizing detention in circumstances involving no breach of the criminal law and travelling beyond presently accepted categories is necessarily and inevitably offensive to Ch.III".

In 1950, during the rise of McCarthyism, the US passed the Emergency Detention Act authorizing detention of people who had not actually committed any act but who would "probably" engage in "acts of espionage or of sabotage" - the law was later repealed.

He said the more natural reading of the law at stake is that it authorizes detention "until the end of the applicable proceedings," and that "there is no justification for any of the procedural requirements" that the appeals court added.

When undocumented migrants are arrested, whether far inland or just inside the border, the space the government has to hold them is generally defined by the number of authorized detention beds.

Or sign a bill authorizing indefinite detention for suspected terrorists?

The United Kingdom passed emergency legislation authorizing the detention of aliens without legal proceedings.

Twelve years ago, on 13 November 2001, President George W Bush signed an order authorizing the detention of suspected al-Qaida members and supporters, and the creation of military commissions.

The indictment was brought after both escaped from a Yemeni jail and was intended in part to allow Interpol to issue a "red notice" authorizing their detention.

Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Mr. Kidd, said that if the United States is to have a law authorizing preventive detention it should be enacted by Congress and not cobbled together by prosecutors.

In September 1950, President Truman vetoed as unconstitutional a law authorizing the detention of "dangerous radicals" if the president declared a national emergency, but Congress voted overwhelmingly to override his veto and approve it.