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Title: Longtime Illegal Residents Lose Battle to Supreme Court
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200579,00.html
Published: Jun 22, 2006
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2006-06-22 12:17:20 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 145
Comments: 4

Thursday , June 22, 2006

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a blow to some longtime illegal residents, upholding the deportation of a Mexican man who lived in the United States for 20 years.

By an 8-1 vote, justices said that Humberto Fernandez-Vargas, who was deported several times from the 1970s to 1981, is subject to a 1996 law Congress passed to streamline the legal process for expelling aliens who have been deported at least once before and returned.

After his last deportation in 1981, Fernandez-Vargas returned to the United States, fathered a child, started a trucking company in Utah and eventually married his longtime companion, a U.S. citizen.

But by the time he applied for legal status — after his marriage in 2001 — Congress had passed the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which revoked the right to appeal to an immigration judge an order of removal.

Fernandez-Vargas was sent back to Mexico in 2004, and wanted to return to his family in the United States. He argued that the 1996 law should not be applied to him because he last entered America more than a decade before Congress passed the statute.

"Fernandez-Vargas continued to violate the law by remaining in this country day after day and ... the United States was entitled to bring that continuing violation to an end," Justice David Souter wrote in the decision.

It was unclear how broad of an impact the ruling would have.

Souter said that unlawful immigrants like Fernandez-Vargas should have known about the 1996 law and taken "advantage of a grace period."

The case is Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales, 04-1376.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

One down, 29,999,999 left, with 2,000/day coming in.

Lod  posted on  2006-06-22   12:33:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Brian S (#0)

They dismissed the Mohawk Industries case earlier this month too---the one where they had to decide if workers could bring RICO actions against employers knowingly hiring illegals---when it looked like they were going to rule in favor of the scofflaw employers based on their questions at oral argument in April.

I think SCOTUS has come to realize, just as part of Congress has, that illegal immigration has the American public in a seditious mood, and they don't want to do anything to exacerbate that disposition.

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2006-06-22   15:03:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Brian S (#0)

Excellent. Every long journey begins with one step.

"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."

mehitable  posted on  2006-06-22   15:11:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Brian S (#0)

in this case I'm on the 'illegal alien' guy's side. he built a life here. he should be allowed to stay.

where I live (in phoenix) half the kids in the schools are children of people who either were illegal before the amnesty of 1986 or are illegals today. they're our community.

Red Jones  posted on  2006-06-23   0:45:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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