MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
ALDRICH, District Judge.
This case presents the limited question of whether the federal government may detain an alien for five months under the guise of a civil immigration statute that provides for the detention of aliens who have illegally reentered the United States after a prior order of deportation, while it awaits evidence with which to indict him on an identical criminal charge. The Court holds that it cannot.
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