INS seeks to deport visually impaired grandfather
(name withheld at client's request)

On appeal before the Board of Immigration Appeals, involving a permanent resident since 1974 who committed two separate crimes in 1974 and 1981. INS never initiated removal/deportation proceedings against him until he applied for U.S. citizenship eighteen years later in 1999. The Immigration Judge wrongly interpreted law as preventing this man from remaining in the United States and ordered him deported. In his native country of Mexico, he has no family to help him and there exist no social programs to assist him.

Update: Hill, Piibe & Villegas convinced the BIA to send the case back to the Immigration Judge, where it was granted (the gentleman was allowed to keep his green card).