Legal Opinion
Reynaldo Requena-Rodriguez v. Kenneth Pasquarell, Immigration & Naturalization Service, District Director
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 15, 1999No. 98-40958PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
Requena appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He contests the INS’s conclusion that he is statutorily ineligible for discretionary relief from deportation. His case implicates two recent sets of changes to the immigration laws, both of which have precipitated a flurry of federal court decisions on retroactivity and Congress’s power to limit habeas jurisdiction.
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”) eliminated discretionary relief from deportation for aliens — like Requena — who had been…
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