[AicapAifap] Secret Courts, in Intelligence or Immigration

[Alliance of Incarcerated Canadians/Foreigners in American Prisons]

The Use of Secret Courts, in Intelligence or Immigration
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, February 15, 2018
. . .
Having had several years of experience within the Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS), where I worked closely with FBI and
other intelligence community officials, I'm familiar with proceedings
that are closed to public view because they inherently involve the use
of classified information.One such proceeding arises in the
immigration context: When aliens are accused of being removable from
the United States on certain national security or terrorism grounds,
it frequently arises that the proceedings must be held in a closed
environment because the evidence on which those grounds are based is
classified. The evidence is received "in camera", which is to say, in
chambers and outside of the view of the public, and often even of the
alien or his counsel, although they are instead given a general,
unclassified summary of the nature of the evidence that forms the
basis of the removal charge.I can speak from personal experience when
I say that such proceedings have been vilified in exactly the terms
I've described, whenever they've been attempted. I can also speak from
experience when I say that many attorneys general were uncomfortable
with use of such proceedings, and one, Janet Reno, absolutely refused
to permit several such cases to go forward in any way, shape, or form,
despite the fact that removal proceedings are civil in nature, not
criminal, and even though both the INS and FBI (and sometimes other
agencies as well) strongly urged her to do so.
. . .
https://cis.org/Cadman/Use-Secret-Courts-Intelligence-or-Immigration
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