LFTC - Gitmo Detainee Travel Update: Coming to America?

The Senate has passed an amendment to a homeland security bill allowing detainees to be brought to America for trial.  The college town of Amherst, Massachusetts is leaning towards passing a resolution calling for resettlement of cleared detainees in Amherst and elsewhere in the US as well.  Their town is their business; the rest of us should decide for ourselves and ignore the presumption of the elders of Amherst.  In the event, Amherst may yet get its chance: The Washington Post reports that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal filed by yet another Uighur (Muslim sect from western China) Guantanamo detainee.  At issue is whether having been determined not to be an enemy combatant, a detainee thus gains the legal right to enter the US and reside here.  In Kiyemba v. Obama (April. 7, 2009), a federal appeals appeals panel sided with the government, which argued that the right to habeas corpus release does not deprive the executive and legislative branches of their right to specify conditions of entry that exclude such applicants.  The case will be heard next year.