OPINION
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Statutory language is important. It takes on added significance when a person's freedom is at stake. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, immigration officials "shall take into custody any" deportable alien who has committed various crimes "when the alien is released" from detention for those crimes. 8 U.S.C. § 1226(c)(1). The Act requires officials to hold such aliens without any possibility of release while awaiting...
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