Daniel: The right of terrorists to avoid deportation based on the Convention Against Torture isn’t limited to the U.K. We, too, are seeing the creation of a “right” to remain in the United States for terrorists, genocidal murderers, and the like because of the torture convention. As Dan Stein of FAIR put it in testimony several years back:

Despite such clear direction from Congress that CAT be applied sparingly, restrictively, and so as to induce compliance with humanitarian norms by foreign states, we have seen the administrative agencies and the Ninth Circuit move recklessly to interpret the Convention in the broadest sense, as an immigration program for highly undesirable aliens, with no indication that grave and fully documented abuses of human rights have been reduced or discouraged in any way.

What’s more, the Supreme Court has ruled that deportable aliens whom we can’t deport must be released after six months. As far as we know, no one’s been killed yet because of these ridiculous rules, but give it time.