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As part of the office’s representation of these individuals, staff lawyers and paralegals have assisted numerous Mariel Cubans in attempting to gain re-lease from detention pursuant to the Mariel Cuban Review process.

It is likely that this Court’s decision in the current case will have an impact on the indefinite-detainee clients that the office represents. The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is a national non-profit association of immigration and nationality lawyers.

Founded in 1946, AILA is an affili-ated organization of the American Bar Association. It now has more than 8,500 members organized in thirty-five chap-ters across the United States and in Canada. AILA’s members’ clients may be directly affected by the decision in this case. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) is one of the nation’s largest refugee resettlement agencies.

In response to God’s love in Christ, LIRS welcomes the stranger, bringing new hope and new life through ministries of service and justice. Through a network of twenty-seven affiliated agencies around the United States, LIRS resettles refugees, reunites families, promotes education and employ-ment, and provides support necessary for early and continu-ing self-sufficiency of refugees, asylum seekers and immi-grants.

LIRS specializes in serving refugees, unaccompanied minors, immigrants in detention, asylees and other vulnerable populations of migrants. Amici submit this brief to explain the inadequacies of the regulatory procedures governing the continued detention of inadmissible aliens like petitioner.

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