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  • Judge blocks deportation of Somalis

    11/15/2002 2:06:20 PM PST · by grimalkin · 6 replies · 224+ views
    KING5.com ^ | 11/15/2002 | Associated Press
    SEATTLE – A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Immigration and Naturalization Service from returning five immigrants to Somalia, after their lawyers argued that the INS can't deport them to a country that effectively has no government. The five men, who have been convicted of crimes or immigration violations, had been scheduled to be moved from Seattle to El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, before being deported to Somalia sometime later. But at the request of the civil liberties group Hate Free Zone Campaign of Washington, lawyers from the Seattle-based firm of Perkins Coie took on their case, filing an emergency...