Immigration
Jan. 3, 2007
Repair Immigrant Deportation Laws to Shelter the Deserving
FORUM COLUMN - By Andrew Bruck and Perrin N. Wright - Stanford law students report immigation law problems from the trenches.
By Andrew Bruck and Perrin N. Wright
Over the past decade, Congress increasingly has targeted legal immigrants for deportation, based on past criminal convictions. Longtime U.S. residents - even those with green cards - may face permanent banishment from their adopted homes for a single criminal conviction, no matter how old. For example, shoplifting and petty larceny committed ...
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