- LOS ANGELES: Civil rights groups have asked the US federal courts to free two mentally disabled men who have been held in immigration detention for up to five years after they were ruled incompetent to face deportation proceedings.
Petitions filed in Los Angeles and San Diego contend the men should be immediately freed or at least granted hearings to determine if they should be detained.
Both men, Mexican citizens with criminal records, were kept in legal limbo after they were deemed incompetent for deportation proceedings, according to a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.