A Brooklyn federal judge dealt, John Gleeson tossed out portions of a class-action lawsuit originally filed in 2002 against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI head Robert Mueller, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the warden of Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center and numerous prison guards.
"After the September 11 attacks, our government used all available law-enforcement tools to ferret out the persons responsible for those atrocities and to prevent additional acts of terrorism. "We should expect nothing less," the judge wrote in a 99-page decision.
The detainees, who were all picked up for minor immigration violations such as expired visas, claimed they were unlawfully rounded up and detained immediately after 9/11. The court wisely ruled that authorities were well within their rights to hold illegal immigrants as they investigated the terror attacks.
Once in a while, common sense still prevails. Of course, we must wait and see what the appeals bring.
Thanks to the New York Post.
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