Wonder About Attorneys? There's Reason

HT Clay Cramer

Here's the press release from the lawfirms involved.

A team of attorneys from Bretz & Coven, LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, and Shearman & Sterling successfully persuaded the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to overturn the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)'s precedential decision in Matter of Blake, 23 I. & N. Dec. 722.

The Second Circuit's opinion in Blake v. Carbone (2d Cir. 2007), released on June 1, 2007, expands the possibility that aliens convicted of certain aggravated felonies can receive relief from deportation under former § 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

The appeal involved four lawful permanent residents who had pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor, federal racketeering, first degree manslaughter, and murder in the second degree, respectively. Each petitioner was charged with deportability under the INA for having been convicted an aggravated felony after admission to the United States. Each petitioner sought relief from deportation under former § 212(c) of the INA. The BIA found each petitioner ineligible for a § 212(c) waiver.

Obviously a resume-building accomplishment if there ever was one.

AND: BONUS!!!!

Here's a UTube of an Immigration Attorney bragging about how his clients can get around all that silly folderol of hiring American citizens (if you really want H1B's instead, who are a Helluvalot cheaper....)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N7l2f_bQ1k

HT: Norm Matloff