U.S. Justice Department opposes undocumented immigrant's right to get Calif. law license
Source: San Jose Mercury News
The Obama administration on Thursday said giving an undocumented immigrant a California law license would violate a 1996 federal immigration law.
In a brief filed with the California Supreme Court, the U.S. Justice Department opposed Chico-area law school grad Sergio Garcia's right to become a lawyer as long as he remains an illegal immigrant. The state Supreme Court, which took up the case earlier this year, had asked the federal government for its legal opinion.
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Garcia originally came to the United States as a toddler and returned to Mexico at about age 8, returning here for good when he turned 17 to finish high school. He has been waiting 18 years for his visa; his father and most of his siblings are already U.S. citizens.
Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_21221774/feds-oppose-undocumented-immigrants-right-get-california-law
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Process the damn visa already!
This should be a non-issue, and the government could render the entire case moot tomorrow if it so chose if the article is correct. If he's had a visa application that the feds have sat on for 18 years, it doesn't seem like his fault he's undocumented.
