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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