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LEGALIZATION ASSISTANCE PROJECT v. I.N.S.

Nos. 89-35345, 89-35593, 89-35613 and 89-35706.

976 F.2d 1198 (1992)

LEGALIZATION ASSISTANCE PROJECT OF the LOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL-CIO); United California Mexican-American Association; Travelers and Immigrants Aid of Chicago; African Community and Information Center, Inc.; American G.I. Forum; Coalition for Fair Immigration Reform, Los Angeles; Hermandad Mexicana Nacional; One Stop Immigration; International Institute (San Francisco); International Institute (East Bay); Chinese American Citizens Alliance, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner, INS; Edwin Meese; U.S. Attorney General; U.S. Department of State, Defendants-Appellants. LEGALIZATION ASSISTANCE PROJECT OF the LOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL-CIO); United California Mexican-American Association; Travelers and Immigrants Aid of Chicago; African Community and Information Center, Inc.; American G.I. Forum; Coalition for Fair Immigration Reform, Los Angeles; Hermandad Mexicana Nacional; One Stop Immigration; International Institute (San Francisco); International Institute (East Bay); Chinese American Citizens Alliance, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner, INS; Edwin Meese; U.S. Attorney General; U.S. Department of State etc. et al., Defendants-Appellants. LEGALIZATION ASSISTANCE PROJECT OF the LOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL-CIO); United California Mexican-American Association; Travelers and Immigrants Aid of Chicago; African Community and Information Center, Inc.; American G.I. Forum; Coalition for Fair Immigration Reform, Los Angeles; Hermandad Mexicana Nacional; One Stop Immigration; International Institute (San Francisco); International Institute (East Bay); Chinese American Citizens Alliance, Plaintiffs, and Coalition for Fair Immigration Reform, Los Angeles; Hermandad Mexicana Nacional; One Stop Immigration; International Institute (San Francisco), et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner, INS; Edwin Meese, U.S. Attorney General; U.S. Department of State, Defendants-Appellees. LEGALIZATION ASSISTANCE PROJECT OF the LOS ANGELES COUNTY FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL-CIO); United California Mexican-American Association; Travelers and Immigrants Aid of Chicago, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner, INS; Edwin Meese, U.S. Attorney General; U.S. Department of State, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Deferred June 26, 1990.

Resubmitted September 1, 1992.

Decided September 18, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter A. Schey, Nat. Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, Los Angeles, Cal., and Robert Pauw, Washington Immigration Project, Washington Ass'n of Churches, Robert H. Gibbs, Law Office of Robert H. Gibbs, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiffs-appellees-appellants.

Michael Rubin, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Berzon & Rubin, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Donald E. Keener, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants-appellees.

Before: FARRIS, PREGERSON, and FERGUSON, Circuit Judges.

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

OVERVIEW

Congress passed The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"), Pub.L. 99-603, to create a comprehensive program to regulate immigration to the United States. One of IRCA's main purposes is to grant legalization to certain groups of illegal aliens with longstanding residence in the United States.

To achieve that purpose, IRCA provides that persons who have lived continuously and unlawfully in the United...

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