Hamaya v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “In order to avoid confusion, the court emphasizes that its decision does not bestow the right to a full parole hearing on every alien seeking admission to the United States. As the foregoing discussion ... makes clear, today the court decides only that under the circumstances, Hamaya’s status as a returning resident alien entitles him to a full hearing on the issue of parole into the country.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 871 F. Supp. 159 - Mejia-Ruiz v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

2. “To regard the fact of apparent excludability — a fact necessarily common to every detained alien seeking parole under section 212 — as a reason for denying release is to turn logic on its head. It would deprive the regulation of all meaning, creating an administrative Catch-22 in which no release could ever qualify as “strictly in the public interest.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 875 F. Supp. 148 - Mersereau v. Ingham