Immigrant Assistance Project of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

OPINION

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-Appellees are illegal immigrants and organizations assisting such immigrants who seek to legalize their status under a legalization program in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (“IRCA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1255. The legalization program was established to benefit aliens who have unlawfully resided in the United States since 1982. Plaintiffs challenge policies and practices adopted by Defendant-Appellant Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) to implement IRCA’s requirement that the aliens’ unlawful status must have been “known to the…