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Justices Ease Deportation Rule in Minor Drug Cases

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Justices Ease Deportation Rule in Minor Drug Cases By ADAM LIPTAK Published: June 14, 2010 WASHINGTON ? Immigrants who are legally in the United States need not be automatically deported for minor drug offenses, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a unanimous decision. Lower courts had said that Jose Angel Carachuri-Rosendo, a permanent resident of the United States who had lived here since 1983, when he was 5, was subject to mandatory deportation for a second drug offense, this one involving possession of single tablet of a prescription drug. The question in the case was whether that second offense amounted to an ?aggravated felony.? If it did, the government had no choice but to deport him under the immigration laws. If it did not, the attorney general had the discretion to show leniency...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 16, 2010 (boomark / email).