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Type
Dissent
Filed
June 22, 2006
Case
Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales
Case status
Decided

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Justice Stevens, dissenting. In 1982, petitioner Humberto Fernandez-Vargas, an alien who had previously been deported, reentered the United States illegally. Over the next 20 years, petitioner remained here. He worked as a truckdriver, owned a trucking business, fathered a child, and eventually married the child’s mother, a United States citizen. The laws in place at…

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