Opinion ID: 2610
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The 1997 and 1999 Deportations

Text: Ali came to the United States from Guyana in 1980, at age fourteen, and attained lawful permanent resident status five years later. Over the course of the next ten years, he established a long arrest record and was convicted of nine theft-related crimes. In 1995, he was placed in removal proceedings, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a)(2)(A)(ii) (transferred to 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii)), for having been convicted of two crimes involving moral turpitude. And in September 1997, he was deported to Guyana. Sometime thereafter, immigration officials discovered that Ali had reentered the U.S. In December 1998, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) served him with a Notice of Intent/Decision to Reinstate Prior Order, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(5), which restored the prior deportation order and charged Ali with illegal reentry. In accordance with that order, Ali was deported for a second time in March 1999. [2] But Ali found his way back into the U.S. And in July 2000, immigration authorities placed Ali in removal proceedings once more. As before, they reinstated the August 1997 deportation order and charged Ali with illegal reentry. This time, however, when Ali was in INS custody, he indicated that he wished to apply for relief from removal.