An immigtrant whose lawyer failed to file the papers that might have prevented his deportation is excused from having to first exhaust his administrative remedies before seeking relief on a charge of illegal re-entry, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Highlighting a case it said was an example of the “exceptionally poor quality of representation often provided by attorneys” hired by aliens, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit gave an immigrant from El Salvador who had been deported for committing crimes a second chance to stay in the United States.
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