Detained Asylum-Seekers Find It Harder to Win Release
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/nyregion/02asylum.html
For more than a decade, arriving asylum-seekers have faced the possibility that they will be detained while immigration authorities oppose their admission, under stricter laws passed in 1996. But a new study by the international advocacy group Human Rights First, shows that it has become harder for them to win release while their cases are considered.