Legal Opinion
United States v. De Horta Garcia
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 13, 2008No. 07-2060PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Jose De Horta Garcia, then a permanent resident alien, was deported in 1996 because he had been convicted of a drug trafficking crime. This case involves his second illegal re-entry into the country after deportation. During his first prosecution for illegal re-entry, he challenged the validity of his deportation order on the grounds that he was denied his right to seek a discretionary waiver of deportation under former INA § 212(c), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c) (1995) (repealed), arguing that the repeal of discretionary waiver should not have been applied to prevent him from…
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