~please read this first: Sarah Town, “Seventeen Years and Counting: A
History of
~please read this first: Sarah Town, “Seventeen Years and Counting: A History of the
IndefiniteDetention of Cuban Immigrants,” In Motion Magazine, December 7,
1997,https://inmotionmagazine.com/mariel.html (or please check e-course
reserves)+~amici brief (required reading) on Benitez v
Mata:https://www.aclu.org/FilesPDFs/profs.pdf (available on internet)—this is amici
curiae toSupreme Court by most important law professors (actual text is: pp 13—
41)+~Supreme Court’s decision on Benitez v Mata and indefinite detention of Mariel
refugees—see:http://www.aclu.org/content/high-court-affirms-government-cannot-
indefinitely-detain-mariel-cubans (this is a brief summary of the case—please read the
entire page)~film: abUSed–reaction assignment 6: please write one page regarding the
Benitez v Mata case mostlybased on the amici brief (read Town article first, for context, and
then the brief tounderstand how/why this person was put into indefinite detention even
though he was not adanger to the public at all; your main points should be about the case
and focus mostly onthe ACLU doctument)____________________________________________