Supreme Court ruling a blow to longtime illegal aliens
Supreme Court ruling a blow to longtime illegal aliens
SUPREME COURT An illegal alien who argued that an immigration law shouldn't apply to him has lost his case in the Supreme Court.
Humberto Fernandez-Vargas, a Mexican national, was deported from the U-S numerous times. In 1981 he made it back, fathered a child, started a business and married an American.
But by the time he applied for legal status, Congress had passed a law making it easier to boot illegals who've been deported at least once, only to return. And Fernandez-Vargas was sent back to Mexico.
He argued the law shouldn't apply in his case because he'd last entered the U-S more than a decade before the law. But by a vote of eight-to-one, the high court says otherwise.
Their ruling deals a blow to people who have illegally been in the country for a long time.
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