Brickbats

We Don' Need No Stinkin' Reason

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Sameeh Hammoudeh was acquitted of transferring money to Palestinian Islamic Jihad for violent activities, and a federal judge ordered him freed from jail. And Hammoudeh has agreed to be deported in a separate tax fraud case. So why is he still in jail, five months after being acquitted? Just because, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They say they have the right to hold a deportee in jail for up to six months without any justification.