COMMITTEE OF CENT. AMERICAN REFUGEES v. I.N.S.

No. C-85-2167-JPV.

682 F.Supp. 1055 (1988)

COMMITTEE OF CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEES ("Comite de Refugiados Centroamericanos" or "CRECE"), Political Asylum Emergency Representation Program, Andres Miras-Villalta, Jaime Olano-Chicas, Robert Parraga, Rafael Montoya Mejia, Sebastian Francisco Miguel, Arnoldo Sanchez Melendez, Juan Pedro Francisco, and Jose Mario Olmos-Gomez, on behalf of themselves and of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Edwin R. Meese, as Attorney General of the United States, Alan C. Nelson, as Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and David Ilchert, as Director of the San Francisco District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

March 18, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Borton, John M. Farrell, Charles F. Robinson, Kevin R. Johnson, Sergio Garcia-Rodriguez, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Robert Rubin, Ignatius Bau, San Francisco Lawyers' Committee for Urban Affairs, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Richard K. Willard, Joan E. Smiley, Linda Wendtland, Madelyn E. Johnson, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Joseph Russoniello, Susan L. Kamlet, Office of U.S. Atty., N.D.Cal., San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

VUKASIN, District Judge.

I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On March 6, 1985, plaintiffs, the Committee of Central American Refugees, the Political Asylum Emergency Representation Program, and eight individuals, representing a class of deportable aliens, filed a complaint against defendants, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (hereinafter the "INS"), Edwin R. Meese, as Attorney General for the United States, Alan...

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