Sentences with phrase «detaining people because»

Earlier this month, the president told Fox News he was «seriously considering» a pardon for Arpaio, who was convicted last month of criminal contempt for ignoring a federal judge's order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants.

Not exact matches

It is difficult for me to parse the sentence in Geneva -4-A3, but SCOTUS in the Hamdan decision seems to believe that the phrase «those placed in hors de combat by -LSB-...] detention» is a modifier of «persons taking no active part» and not a modifier of «members of armed forces», because SCOTUS held that this Article applies to Osama bin Laden's driver, who was detained in Camp X-ray.

McKenna said he favors a policy under which local police would not ask people for documentation but objects to the term «sanctuary city» because it incorrectly implies that immigration law violators can not be detained.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said before 4 p.m. that 17 people are still being detained JFK airport because of the ban, but that report conflicts with what other officials have said.

«We» are standing up for human rights in line with Shami Chakrabarti because we oppose the draconian imposition of state sponsored snooping and detaining people willy - nilly subsequent to 911.

The Indigenous People of Biafra has called for the immediate released of their members in detention especially those being detained in Kuje prison, to enable them take proper medical treatment because.

This can be increased to 1.5 days «if circumstances justify it,» unless a person is detained pre-sentence because of his or her criminal record, or due to criminal behaviour while on bail.

Young men are in jail because of pot, people lose their jobs because they were caught smoking a joint, and police use marijuana as a pretext to detain and search.

Lord Justice Lloyd Jones held that «While I readily accept the fundamental importance of the guarantees provided by Article 5, it does not follow that Article 5 must be equated for all purposes with Articles 2, 3 and 4... In the present state of the Strasbourg jurisprudence, enforced disappearance cases are acknowledged to give rise to an investigative obligation because where agents of the State have assumed control over an individual it is incumbent on the authorities to account for his or her whereabouts... I can see no reason in principle why it should be extended to all cases in which a person has been detained in the absence of judicial scrutiny or control, even if the detention is not secret or unacknowledged.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.