El Departamento de Justicia ha invocado una ley de 200 años de antigüedad para detener a miles de migrantes indocumentados a fin de que declaren en casos contra traficantes de personas. Algunos han estado privados de la libertad seis meses o más.
The Justice Department has invoked a 200-year-old law to detain thousands of undocumented immigrants as witnesses in smuggling cases. Judges have locked up some for six months or more.
The justices heard arguments about how to interpret part of the law aimed at reducing prison sentences for people convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes.