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~please read this first: Sarah Town, “Seventeen Years and Counting: A History of the Indefinite
Detention of Cuban Immigrants,” In Motion Magazine, December 7, 1997,
https://inmotionmagazine.com/mariel.html (or please check e-course reserves)
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~amici brief (required reading) on Benitez v Mata:
https://www.aclu.org/FilesPDFs/profs.pdf (available on internet)—this is amici curiae to
Supreme Court by most important law professors (actual text is: pp 13—41)
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~Supreme Court’s decision on Benitez v Mata and indefinite detention of Mariel refugees—see:
http://www.aclu.org/content/high-court-affirms-government-cannot-indefinitely-detain-mariel-
cubans (this is a brief summary of the case—please read the entire page)
~film: abUSed
–reaction assignment 6: please write one page regarding the Benitez v Mata case mostly
based on the amici brief (read Town article first, for context, and then the brief to
understand how/why this person was put into indefinite detention even though he was not a
danger to the public at all; your main points should be about the case and focus mostly on
the ACLU doctument)
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