US high court ruling for Pinoy could stall massive deportation
01/09/2012A decision by the United States Supreme Court last month, staying the deportation of a Filipino immigrant convicted of voluntary manslaughter, could slow down the deportation of nearly 393,000 people in the fiscal year that ended September 30, half of whom were considered criminals.
Joel Judulang, 45, of Los Angeles, California, was ordered released from detention by a unanimous decision last Dec. 12 of the Supreme Court penned by Justice Elena Kagan, describing the new policy of the government’s Board of Immigration Appeals “as arbitrary and capricious on its own merits, even apart from retroactivity concerns.”
Judulang was born in the Philippines and was brought to the United States in 1974 at the age of eight..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120109hed6.html
2 comments:
itong sistema ng plea bargaining sa kalbong agila ay pinipintasan dahil kulang sa katarungan--the risks of sending an innocent person to jail is there, rather high even.
"In 2005, the government initiated deportation proceedings against Judulang based on his conviction for voluntary manslaughter described by the government’s Immigration Judge (IJ) as “aggravated felony crime of violence.”
"The IJ informed Judulang that “Section 212(c)(c)” of the Immigration and Nationality Act “could have been applied to your manslaughter conviction,” but his six-year suspended sentence disqualified him from relief, such that he was unable to submit an application."
Who?
I don't know him?
Many like him why single him out?
Special siopao ba siya?
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