US: Protect Families in Deportation Cases

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The ruling by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on August 2, 2010, that US deportation hearings violate legal residents’ rights to family unity sends a clear signal that reforms are needed in US immigration law. Human Rights Watch had filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief in the case Wayne Smith and Hugo Armendariz v. United States.

(Washington DC) – The ruling by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on August 2, 2010, that US deportation hearings violate legal residents’ rights to family unity sends a clear signal that reforms are needed in US immigration law, Human Rights Watch said today.

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