Papakonstantinou Ex Rel. Papakonstantinou v. Civiletti

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEAHER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, an alien subject to an outstanding order of deportation and his minor citizen daughter, seek declaratory and injunctive relief against enforcement of sections 201(a) and (b), 101(a)(27)(A), and 212(a)(14) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1151(a), (b), 1101(a)(27)(A), and 1182(a)(14) (1976) (“Act”). They claim that § 201, insofar as it denies “immediate relative” status to the alien parent of a citizen child who is under the age of twenty-one, as applied to them produces a result not intended by Congress, and, in…