AMANULLAH v. COBB

Civ. A. No. 87-1195-T.

673 F.Supp. 28 (1987)

AMANULLAH and Wahidullah, Petitioners, v. Charles T. COBB, as District Director of the Boston District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 28, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Helton, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, New York City, Regina Lee, Legal Services Center, Jamaica Plain, Mass., for petitioners.

Evan Slavitt, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., for respondent.


MEMORANDUM

TAURO, District Judge.

This is a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus brought by two Afghan nationals who unsuccessfully applied for political asylum in the United States1, and who now face exclusion and deportation2 to India under the provisions of 8 U.S.C. §§ 1225 and 1226. Petitioners accept that they are subject to deportation. But they insist that, prior to their deportation...

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