They were arrested. They were picked up. Ordinarily they would have been deported. but on the request of the district attorneys office. they are being detained because of possible use as witnesses at some case yet to be heard. The Supreme Court has made it patently and unmistakably clear that no witness should be held for more than a few days at the most. Here the district attorney ignores this even though the Immigration Service protests the cost involved in the long incarceration of witnesses. In this case the Government spent $40.000 or more holding these men because the U.S. attorney says it was too costly for him to have made their depositions. Over $40.000.
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