This Newsweek article, dated January 7, 2010, tells the story of legal immigrant Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo and the issues surrounding his deportation on the grounds of misdemeanor offenses. Prior to 1996, immigration judges have exercised discretion on deportation on a case-by-case basis. However in 1996, new laws increased the number of crimes that constituted aggravated felonies and took some power away from immigration judges, causing confusion. Recently, the government has expanded the meaning of these “aggravated felonies” to encompass lower-level crimes as well and used it as grounds for more deportations. The legal question posed by this and other similar cases is: Should legal immigrants be deported for committing crimes?
We relate this situation to a child playing at a friend’s house. The child was invited to play at his/her friend’s house as a guest, however it is known that if you break a rule of their house you must go home.
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdorn/116503453/
By Brooke Adair & Alex Bishop
Grade this post
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.