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Supremes On Permanent Bar Applicability

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An Associated Press news story reports “in a case that could determine how the U.S. deals with longtime illegal residents,
Supreme Court justices considered Wednesday whether a deported Mexican man should be allowed to join his family in Utah”. For the full story, see here.

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/politics/index.ssf?/base/politics-/1143064541164450.xml&storylist=washington Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales, No. 04-1376 (Sup. Ct. Mar. 22, 2006). The Supreme Court granted certiorari to answer “whetherand under what circumstances INA 241(a)(5) applies to an alien who reentered the US illegally before the effective date of IIRIRA, April 1, 1997.” The decision below was Fernandez-Vargasv. Gonzales, No. 03-394 (10th Cir. Jan. 12, 2005).

KJ