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YESIL v. RENO

No. 96 Civ. 8409 (DC).

958 F.Supp. 828 (1997)

Engin YESIL, Petitioner, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 27, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. DiRaimondo, Marialaina L. Masi, New York City and Thomas E. Moseley, Newark, NJ, for Petitioner.

Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York by Diogenes P. Kekatos, Pierre M. Gentin, Assistant United States Attorneys, James A. O'Brien, III, Special Assistant United States Attorney, New York City, for Respondents.

Lucas Guttentag, Lee Gelernt, Laura L. Ho, New York City, for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Immigrants' Rights Project.

OPINION

CHIN, District Judge.

Section 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the "INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c), gives the Attorney General of the United States the discretion to waive deportation of certain aliens who are deportable because they have been convicted of a crime. Section 212(c) is a "humane provision" intended to give the Attorney General the ability, in essence, to forgive an individual...

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