They said WHAT?!

Maher Arar, a Syrian-Canadian citizen who was detained in the US as he was returning to Canada through a US airport and deported to Syria in violation of US laws (the Immigration and Nationality Act says that unadmissible aliens should be deported back to the country where they just arrived from, which in this case would have been Switzerland), is understandably trying to sue the US Government. And look what a senior lawyer for the US government is telling his judge:

At most, Mary Mason told a hearing in Brooklyn, N.Y., passengers would have the right not to be subjected to "gross physical abuse."

If passengers are deemed to be inadmissible, they have no constitutional rights even if later taken to an American prison. Mason told Judge David Trager that's because they are deemed to be still outside the U.S., from a legal point of view.

Mason said the interpretation means travellers can be detained without charge, denied the right to consult a lawyer, and even refused necessities such as food and sleep.

SAY WHAT?! Somebody, please take those people to the Supreme Court, and the sooner the better.