Asian American Groups Urge Supreme Court to Hold That Legal Permanent Residents Should Not Be Retroactively Subjected to Harsh New Legal Consequences
WASHINGTON — Members of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice—the Asian American Justice Center, Asian Law Caucus and Asian Pacific American Legal Center—have joined an amicus curiae, or friend-of-the-court, brief in Vartelas v. Holder. The brief urges the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), which seeks to remove a legal permanent resident’s (LPR) right to make “innocent, casual and brief” trips abroad without fear that he will be denied reentry, does not apply retroactively. The brief was filed Nov. 22 by Washington Square Legal Services.












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