Given that the issue here is not deportation, because these people cannot be deported without facing possible death, before we push them off the cliff, could they not be given a right of appeal equal to those who are simply facing a set time in prison, that is to say an appeal on issues of law, on issues of fact, or on joint issues of law and fact, so that there would not be a single person with the responsibility of keeping them in detention indefinitely?
On December 4th, 2007. See this statement in context.