Alien-criminals sent packing: immigration lawyers face new woes with tough deportation law
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Immigration lawyers have a new deportation law to deal with, which has stronger measures against criminal aliens. Convictions for child abuse, stalking, domestic violence or fraud may now result in deportation. Permanent residents may now be deported for some crimes, and some convictions may be retroactively punished by deportation.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1997
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Alien criminals get the boot; DOJ claims courts can't review most deportation cases
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The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, both enacted in 1996, greatly expanded the list of crimes which could result in deportation for relatively minor offenses, and also made "crimes of moral turpitude" grounds for deportation regardless of whether imprisonment was imposed. Immigration judges' discretion to waive deportation for criminal aliens with strong personal and family ties to the US, good work records and evidence of rehabilitation also disappeared with the new laws.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1999
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