Courts upheld detention of immigrants based on race, religion, or national origin.

Evidence

In a troubling development, the courts later ruled that the government has the right to detain immigrants on the basis of their race, religion, or national origin, and it can legally imprison immigrants indefinitely, as long as their eventual removal from the country is “reasonably foreseeable.” — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1052

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to legal scholarship on race-based detention and enemy-alien law; echoes the parallel the author draws to Japanese internment cases. — connects to: Courts shifted from protecting aliens to endorsing state employment discrimination against them — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1087