SANTANA-FIGUEROA v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION

No. 79-7691.

644 F.2d 1354 (1981)

Jorge SANTANA-FIGUEROA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 11, 1981.

As Corrected May 19, 1981.

Rehearing Denied August 10, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis W. Campbell, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner.

Katherine V. Tooks, Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent.

Before WRIGHT and TANG, Circuit Judges, and HANSON, Senior District Judge.


EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

A 70 year-old citizen of Mexico has resided in the United States nearly 14 years as a responsible, law-abiding, taxpaying, church-going member of his community. Uneducated and unskilled, he has been employed as a maintenance man and has used his meager earnings to support both his family in Mexico and himself without public assistance. He concedes deportability but asserts that deportation would cause him extreme hardship, not only...

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