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HERNANDEZ-CORDERO v. U.S.I.N.S.

No. 85-4587.

819 F.2d 558 (1987)

Patricio HERNANDEZ-CORDERO and Maria Guadalupe Ortega de Hernandez, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 19, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Hines, Austin, Tex., for petitioners.

Lawrence H. Rudnick, Philadelphia, Pa., for amicus curiae AM Immigration.

James M. Spears, Edwin Meese, III, Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Robert L. Bombaugh, Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civ. Div., Allen W. Hausman, Asst. Director, Madelyn E. Johnson, Eloise Rosas, Richard M. Evans, Lauri Steven Filppu, Marshall Tamor Golding, Attys., Washington, D.C., for I.N.S.

Richard M. Casillas, Dist. Director, San Antonio, Tex., David H. Lambert, Dist. Director, I.N.S., New Orleans, La., for other interested parties.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GEE, RUBIN, REAVLEY, POLITZ, RANDALL, JOHNSON, WILLIAMS, GARWOOD, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, HILL and JONES, Circuit Judges.

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

Patricio Hernandez-Cordero and his wife, Maria Guadalupe Ortega de Hernandez, appeal the denial of their application for a suspension of deportation. 8 U.S.C. § 1254(a)(1). We affirm.

I.

Mr. and Mrs. Hernandez are citizens of the Republic of Mexico. They have resided in the United States continuously since they were married in 1975. Mr. Hernandez is a self-employed trim-carpenter contractor and earns approximately...

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