http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0623/p02s01-usju.html
Warren Richey
"A ruling, expelling a man deported two decades ago, could penalize thousands of illegal immigrants. In a case with implications for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants and their families, the US Supreme Court ruled that a strict immigration measure requiring prior deportees to be automatically expelled from the country applies to any illegal immigrant who reentered the US, regardless of when. The ruling comes in the case of Humberto Fernandez-Vargas, a Mexican truck driver who was deported from the US several times in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1982, he returned and spent the next 19 years living and working illegally in Utah. He started a trucking company, raised a son, and got married. But when he applied to become a permanent resident, immigration officials had him detained under a 1996 law that requires anyone previously deported from the US be immediately expelled."
