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Thom Dyke

Thom Dyke is a barrister and a member of the Bar Human Rights Committee.

Short Cuts: Detained in Guantánamo

Thom Dyke, 3 April 2025

During the first weeks of his second term, President Trump signed into law the Laken Riley Act, which stipulates that undocumented immigrants arrested for violent crimes or theft should be held in custody before trial. As he did it, he made the startling announcement that a facility for detaining thirty thousand ‘criminal illegal aliens’ was to be constructed at the US naval...

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