Supreme Court of the United States December 16, 1991, 90-1090 (Immigration & Naturalization Service v. National Center for Immigrants' Rights, Inc.)

Justice Stevens

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents a narrow question of statutory construction. Section 242(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) authorizes the Attorney General to arrest excludable aliens and, pending a determination of their deportability, either to hold them in custody or to release them on bond “containing such conditions as the Attorney General