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06-15-2010, 07:51 PM #1
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Court blocks deportation for drug use cases...
The courts pandering to illegals keep chipping away at current laws in support of illegal activities for immigrants. WHY?
Court halts deportation in minor drug cases
Jun. 15, 2010 12:00 AM
Tribune Washington Bureau
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court blocked the government Monday from routinely deporting legal immigrants for minor drug-possession convictions, a decision that immigrant-rights lawyers said will spare tens of thousands of otherwise law-abiding residents from being sent out of the United States.
In a 9-0 decision, the justices said a Texas man who pleaded guilty at different times to having a marijuana cigarette and a Xanax pill, an anti-anxiety drug, had been wrongfully deported.
Jose Carachuri-Rosendo was taken into federal custody after he pleaded no contest to having the Xanax pill without a prescription. Both an immigration judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled he must be deported because his second drug-possession conviction qualified as an "aggravated felony."
His case illustrated the impact of a 1996 federal law. Previously, immigrants could ask for leniency if they had a job, a family or other ties in the U.S., but the new law required the deportation of any non-citizen convicted of an "aggravated felony."
But Congress did not carefully define this term. Since then, immigration judges have been deciding which crimes fit the definition.
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