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<\/a>\u201cIt appears that Respondents arrested a chronically ill, 70-year-old woman, who came to this country to avoid religious persecution and applied for asylum, who has lived here peacefully for 26 years and complied with all check-in requirements and other conditions of release, who has no known criminal record and poses no threat to anyone \u2026then kept her in detention for months without sufficient medical care<\/a>\u2014and they do not have any argument to offer to even try to justify these actions.\u201d<\/p>\n