Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel February 20, 2003 (Limitations on the Detention Authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Service)

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United States · · · 20-02-2003

Limitations on the Detention Authority of the

Immigration and Naturalization Service

The Immigration and Nationality Act by its terms grants the Attorney General a full 90 days to effect

an alien’s removal after the alien is ordered removed under section 241(a) of the Act, and it imposes

no duty on the Attorney General to act as quickly as possible, or with any particular degree of

dispatch,

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