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"The Quality of Mercy in New York: A Different Kind of State Challenge to Federal Immigration Policy"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this great guest post by Margaret Love over at the ASC blog.  Here is how that posts starts and ends: On October 21, The New York Times reported that Governor David Paterson had received more than 1000 pardon requests from legal immigrants facing deportation because of old or minor state crimes.  In May, Paterson had announced the creation of a panel to consider such requests, ostensibly to inject fairness into what he described as an "embarrassingly and wrongly inflexible" system that expels immigrants without considering the possibility that deportation in a particular case might be unwise or unjust.  Now, his term nearly up, the deadline for decision is fast approaching.  Having stirred this pot, whatever he does is bound to be controversial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).