Hsue Li Lee v. Reno

OPINION AND ORDER

JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.

Recent sweeping changes to the nation’s immigration laws, passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1996, have presented a number of difficult interpretive issues to the federal courts. This is one of those cases — one that raises two very important questions of statutory and, potentially, constitutional interpretation. The first is whether Congress intended only to streamline judicial review of final orders of deportation or whether it intended to remove federal courts from the picture altogether. If it is the latter intent, the…