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 | | Over the decades, the United States has developed elaborate systems of rules and standards designed to ensure that the deprivation of liberty will never be arbitrary and that if individuals are deprived of their liberty after just legal proceedings, the conditions in which they are held must be humane. |
 | | United States, for example, the Supreme Court insisted that aliens are entitled to due process before being deported: "Aliens who have once passed through our gates, even illegally, may be expelled only after proceedings conforming to traditional standards of fairness encompassed in due process of law."81 Similarly, in Plyler v. |
 | | Although the United States has agreed in principle that a standard policy on detention conditions is necessary to ensure that all detainees in all forms of immigration detention have the same access to telephones, counsel, visitors, the press, and legal information, such a uniform policy has not yet been adopted. |
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