Martin Torres Hernandez faces one of the most common problems of people who get caught up in the U.S. immigration system: He was ordered removed from the country in absentia after he failed to show up for a court hearing. And when Torres Hernandez claimed he never received the notice because it was mailed to the wrong address, the judges and the government didn’t believe him.
But a recent decision won by his attorney, Salvador Colon, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit gives Torres Hernandez a shot at remaining in the country by forcing the immigration courts to at least listen to his explanation.
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