During the last days of the Bush II administration, AG Michael Mukasey issued an order that "limited access to lawyers for immigrants facing deportation". Now the Obama admin and AG Eric Holder have "vacated" the rule that said "immigrants facing deportation do not have an automatic right to an effective lawyer". Holder said a new rule will be written. (It would seem that this means that the Miranda rights apply to immigrants as well as those accused of felonies. It should be noted that the article talks of "immigrants" and not "illegal-immigrants").
(Source: "Immigration lawyer rule tossed by Obama" in The Record on 6/4/09)
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