And in April 2003, an immigration judge dismissed the deportation case.

Few courts have ever accepted a selective enforcement defense in a deportation case.

And then the Justice Department has to start all over again with a deportation case.

How to conduct deportation cases against aliens who were suspected terrorists caused significant debate.

The lawyers want immigration judges to close the deportation cases until the situation in Haiti improves.

Her story has twists that make it unusually harsh even by the standards of deportation cases.

Another 24 have been released for other reasons, including parole while their deportation cases are pending.

For now, the United States government is putting its energies into deportation cases instead.

That is, immigration officials would simply decline to proceed with a deportation case.

He is now awaiting the outcome of a deportation case against him.