Chi Thon Ngo A/K/A David Lam v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “[i]t is extremely unlikely that the [Vietnamese] petitioner’s detention will be permanent” because “[diplomatic efforts with Vietnam are underway, albeit at a speed approximating the flow of cold molasses”
• holding that administrative detention of inadmissible aliens ordered removed is not punishment
• finding that due process necessitates individualized review of detention for aliens who had already been ordered removed from the United States
• stating that “Mezei has been much criticized, but has remained a governing precedent and has been applied, with some modifications, in most leading cases”
• finding that due process necessitates individualized review of detention for aliens who had already been ordered removed from the United States
• reciting features of interim rule at issue, and comparing them to the rules for detaining Mariel Cubans

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).