Question #10: What is the current or up to date status on Amnesty 2000 for undocumented and/or illegal aliens? Who is included and who might be deported?

Carl Shusterman: Amnesty 2000 at this point, is merely a proposal by the AFL/CIO, the giant labor union/federation. See:

http://shusterman.com/toc-amnesty.html

to see the various articles about Amnesty 2000.

At present no senator or representative has introduced an amnesty bill in Congress. Until they do so, and it passes and is signed by the president, it is impossible to say who the amnesty will cover.

Suffice to say that when I left the INS in 1982, my very first client was a grandmother who was under a final order of deportation. When the amnesty passed in 1986, the fact that a judge had ordered her deported was not a barrier to obtaining a green card on her behalf.

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