Jose Henriques v. The Immigration & Naturalization Service, Board of Immigration Appeals

Petitioner, with assistance from the New York Civil Liberties Union which briefed and argued the appeal, seeks to raise a momentous issue — the right of an indigent alien to counsel in a deportation proceeding. He does this by way of a petition for review, under section 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1105a, of a December 13, 1971, order of the Board of Immigration Appeals, which dismissed an appeal from a decision of a Special Inquiry Officer. That decision found petitioner deporta-ble as a nonimmigrant visitor for pleasure who overstayed his four-day visa. However,…