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#Fifth Amendment

The constitutional amendment guaranteeing due process, protection against self-incrimination, and just compensation. Its due process clause applies to all persons in the U.S., including non-citizens, and is implicated by detention and deportation actions.

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Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

Guantanamo Bay Immigrant Detention: Solitary Confinement and Ill-Treatment

Immigrants transferred to Guantanamo Bay face conditions that Human Rights Watch says may amount to ill-treatment prohibited under international law: isolation for up to 23 hours a day, punitive restraint in a chair, and incommunicado detention. ACLU and CCR lawsuits challenge the offshore detention as unconstitutional and beyond the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act.