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by apical_dendrite 419 days ago
Read the government's court filings. They're saying they can declare that someone is an enemy alien, provide minimal notice and opportunity for due process (12 hours, and that's only after the Supreme Court made them give any notice at all) and then send that person to a labor camp in El Salvador, at which point even if a court orders the government to bring them back, the government says it doesn't have to do anything. That's not hyperbole, that's their legal position.

So unless you're already represented by counsel, can understand the notice that they are providing you, and your counsel can get into court in the district where you're being held with a habeas corpus petition and get the court to rule within 12 hours, that's it, you'll be spending the rest of your life in a Salvadorean labor camp with no hope of recourse. That is literally what the government is saying.