2017), https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/10/12/11-billion-invisible-people-without-id-are-priority-for-new-high-level-advisory-council-on-identification-for-development.
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(“Unless the systematic targeting of or disproportionate
impact on certain minorities, resulting in their statelessness, is directly acknowledged and addressed, the
predicament and challenges of the statelessness of more
than 10 million individuals will not be significantly
reduced.”).
336. Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, The
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the-problem.
337. UNHCR, Ending Statelessness, https://www.unhcr.
org/stateless-people.html.
338. Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 102 (1958). In this
landmark decision the Supreme Court struck down a law
authorizing the deprivation of citizenship as punishment
for conviction by court martial for wartime desertion.
339. United States Department of State, Statelessness – Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, https://www.
state.gov/other-policy-issues/statelessness/.
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26, 2019), https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/us/
politics/adham-hassoun-indefinite-detention.html.
342. UNHCR & Open Society Justice Initiative, Citizens of
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2012), https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/
default/files/citizens-of-nowhere-solutions-for-the-stateless-in-the-us-20121213.pdf (citing Jama v. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, 543 U.S. 335, 341 (2005); 8 U.S.C. §
1231(b)).
343. This is one example of the language used by the
government when it includes removal terms in a plea
agreement. Depending on the district in which the case is
adjudicated, the specific language may vary.
344. UNHCR & Open Society Justice Initiative, Citizens of
Nowhere: Solutions for the Stateless in the U.S., at 19 (Dec.
2012), https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/
default/files/citizens-of-nowhere-solutions-for-the-stateless-in-the-us-20121213.pdf.
345. United States Department of State, Office of the
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documents/organization/226329.pdf.
346. Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 102 (1958).
340. UNHCR & Open Society Justice Initiative, Citizens of
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2012), https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/
default/files/citizens-of-nowhere-solutions-for-the-stateless-in-the-us-20121213.pdf (“U.S. law provides that all
non-citizens detained following g a final order of removal
have the right to release after six months if they can
demonstrate that there is ‘no significant likelihood of
removal in the reasonably foreseeable future.’”) (citing
Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678, 701 (2001).
347. Eli Watkins and Abby Phillip, Trump Decries
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immigrants-shithole-countries-trump/index.html.
341. UNHCR & Open Society Justice Initiative, Citizens of
Nowhere: Solutions for the Stateless in the U.S., at 25 (Dec.
2012), https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/about-us/background/56fbfcea4/citizens-of-nowhere-solutions-for-the-stateless-in-the-us.html,. See also current challenge to
indefinite detention by stateless person: Lev Sugarman,
Document: Habeas Petition Challenging Indefinite Detention
Under “Special Circumstances,” Lawfare (Mar. 26, 2019),
https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-habeas-petition-challenging-indefinite-detention-under-special-circumstances; Hassoun v. Searls, No. 19-cv-6196 (W.D.N.Y.
Mar. 15, 2019), verified petition for writ of habeas corpus
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documenthelper/689-adham-hassoun-habeas-complaint/3445cb2deaff16e785d8/optimized/full.pdf#page=1; Phil
Fairbanks, Terrorist Supporter Without a Country Seeks
Release from Batavia, The Buffalo News (Mar. 18, 2019),
https://buffalonews.com/2019/03/18/terrorist-supporter-without-a-country-seeks-release-from-batavia/;
Charlie Savage, Testing Novel Powers, Trump Administration
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Endnotes
348. Yeganeh Torbati, Trump Administration Bars Haitians
from U.S. Visas for Low-Skilled Work, Reuters (Jan. 17,
2018), https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-haiti/trump-administration-bars-haitians-from-u-svisas-for-low-skilled-work-idUSKBN1F702O.
350. “The Secretary of Homeland Security may designate
a foreign country for TPS due to conditions in the country
that temporarily prevent the country's nationals from
returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the
country is unable to handle the return of its nationals
adequately.” USCIS, Temporary Protected Status (June 7,
2019), https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status.
351. Joseph Tanfani, Trump Administration Plans to End
Protected Status for About 60,000 Haitian Immigrants, L.A
Times (Nov. 20, 2017), https://www.latimes.com/politics/
la-na-pol-haiti-tps-20171120-story.html.
352. Current as of April 11, 2019. See Ramos, et al. v.
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