Legal Opinion
Perceira Goncalves v. INS
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 18, 1998No. 97-1953PublishedCited by 207 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Raul Goncalves has been a permanent resident alien for twenty-five years, ever since he arrived in the United States at the age of three, and now is subject to deportation because he has committed crimes of moral turpitude such as theft, possession of marijuana and the like. He filed an application in 1994 for discretionary relief from deportation with the immigration authorities under § 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as the law permitted him to do.
While Goncalves’ application was still pending, Congress enacted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death…
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