My understanding is that there's a 12-month bar on release unless they're recognized as refugees within that time period. The thing about it is that we live in a country where we respect liberty. You don't detain people if there's not a need to detain. If you know who they are, you know they're not a risk, they're making a refugee claim, and there are bond signers, why on earth would you detain them except to punish? That's not the purpose of it.
