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SOROA-GONZALES v. CIVILETTI

Civ. A. No. C80-1356A.

515 F.Supp. 1049 (1981)

Genaro SOROA-GONZALES, Plaintiff, v. Benjamin R. CIVILETTI, Secretary of the Department of Justice; Edmund Muskie, Secretary of State Department; Norman A. Carlson, Director, Bureau of Prisons; Jack Hanberry, Warden, United States Penitentiary; and Tyrus E. Minnix, District Director of Immigration and Naturalization Service, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

Supplemental Order June 4, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Ebel and Barbara Twine, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff.

Douglas Roberto, Asst. U. S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.

ORDER

SHOOB, District Judge.

Is it fair or reasonable for the President of the United States to invite refugees from Cuban oppression to this country and then detain one of them indefinitely in a maximum security federal prison on the sole ground that he, like 130,000 other Cuban refugees who are now free on parole, arrived without proper entry papers? The answer is no. It is neither fair, reasonable nor humane. Can this Court do anything about...

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