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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Aug. 22, 2008

Fixing Our Immigration Courts: Child's Play?

If the Justice Department won’t clean up its own immigration mess, then lawyers zealously representing aggrieved immigration clients, and lawfully appointed judges, must do so, writes Angelo A. Paparelli. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Angelo A. Paparelli
This article appears on Page 6

      On Aug. 12, in a speech to the American Bar Association, U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, taking a page from Robert Fulghum's book, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten," offered this august body a lesson "we all learned in the schoolyard." Citing the "principle of equity" that "two wrongs do not make a right," the attorn...

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