Kids Sue Obama Over Parents' Deportations

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5093820.shtml

AP) Roughly 150 children are suing President Barack Obama to halt the deportations of their parents until Congress overhauls U.S. immigration laws.

The children are U.S. citizens and say their constitutional rights are being violated because they, too, probably will have to leave the country if their parents are forced out.

The group is gathering Wednesday in Miami to talk about the case. They originally brought their lawsuit against the Bush administration. It was refiled in January in Miami.

The children's attorneys say the parents came to the United States before 1996 immigration changes made it more difficult for them to become legal residents. They had expected to be allowed to stay.

Dang...

1996? or did they mess up and mean 1986.

I believe they do mean 1996 because was the year a lot of the more severe immigration laws were passed such as the ten year ban for overstaying a visa.

yeah that was the year (1996) when BILL CLINTON signed the law that had 287(g) included..

How has the Bush and the Obama administration responded?

Pardon my ignorance, but can someone explain the last sentence? They had expected to be allowed to stay? So everyone that came pre-1996 can stay? ( I am sure this is not the fact, just curious about what they mean by that)

Holy Shite!! I hope this goes somewhere for the better.

Effective dates of 222(g)INA § 222(g) applies to anyone who entered the United States on a nonimmigrant visa and "stayed beyond the period authorized," no matter when the overstay occurred. Thus, someone whose I-94 expired before September 30, 1996, when the law went into effect, is still considered an overstay and thus is subject to the penalties of the law. Also, a ruling by an immigration judge or a USCIS (or a DHS) officer that the individual violated status, even if such a violation occurred prior to September 30, 1996, would result in application of the overstay penalties.

I forgot where I got that from... but it seems like they don't have case?