A Land Without Law

3315.199 - 3337.932 Brandt Goldstein

They ruled that the word return didn't mean return because the refugees were not being returned from anywhere if they were intercepted on the high seas. It's a pretty unpersuasive reading of the law, but the justices were evidently worried about tying the president's hands beyond U.S. borders. So the refugees that were held on Guantanamo, the last few hundred, are allowed into the country.