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AGUILAR v. U.S. IMMIG. AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT

No. 07-1819.

510 F.3d 1 (2007)

Nolberta AGUILAR et al., Petitioners, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT DIVISION OF the DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY et al., Respondents, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 27, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. Bonn, III and Harvey Kaplan, with whom Michael Shin, Matthew M. Lyons, Dechert LLP, Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, Nancy Kelly, John Willshire, Greater Boston Legal Servs., John Reinstein, Laura Rótolo, American Civil Liberties Foundation of Mass., Iris Gomez, Mass. Law Reform Inst., Ondine Sniffin, and Catholic Social Servs. of Fall River were on brief, for petitioners.

Thomas H. Dupree, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Daniel J. Davis, Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, David J. Kline, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Elizabeth J. Stevens, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, and Mark Grady, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for respondents.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal has its genesis in a dramatic raid on a leather goods factory in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Enforcement of the immigration laws is difficult and oftentimes controversial work. So it was here: the raid led to the detention of hundreds of undocumented aliens and put significant strains on those involved and those who wished to help. In short order, the detainees (many of whom were whisked away to distant places) brought a civil...

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