"It's simply not necessary to keep ordinary citizens detained for this long," she said in an interview.
He said the administration needed to stop detaining American citizens indefinitely without charges.
The Saudi government has hired lawyers for many of its citizens detained in this country, the spokesman said.
It is a disturbing ruling, with sweeping implications for the power of the government to detain citizens.
In the past year, several U.S. citizens were illegally detained by government forces.
U.S. citizens have been detained and expelled for distributing religious literature.
Next week, it will argue that it has just as much latitude to detain American citizens.
Is this the same administration that wants to detain citizens indefinitely without trial or representation within the United States?
"Why would anyone want to detain senior citizens?"
U.S. citizens entering the country without visas have been detained and deported.