Legal Opinion
Fidelis Osuchukwu v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 26, 1984No. 83-4686PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
The sluggishness of immigration and judicial procedures makes it inevitable that changes in the lives of the people affected will occur while these processes move slowly along. An alien who was ordered deported four years ago when his citizen wife was expecting their first child seeks to avoid return to his native country on the ground that deportation would cause extreme hardship to his wife, the child, and to another child whom his wife was expecting by the time we heard the appeal. Finding that the immigrant’s wife and son would not suffer extreme hardship on…
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