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By Hook Or By Cook: Exploring The Legality Of An Ins Sting Operation, Lenni B. Benson
By Hook Or By Cook: Exploring The Legality Of An Ins Sting Operation, Lenni B. Benson
San Diego Law Review
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is an agency with responsibility both for enforcing the immigration laws and conferring legal status and other benefits. This author finds that at times these dual roles create conflict, mistrust in the community, and violations of the rights of aliens. This Article critically examines an undercover operation conducted in 1993 by the San Diego District Office, which lured aliens to deportation through INS offers of legal status. The Article discusses the regulatory and statutory provisions governing INS undercover operations and the rights of aliens subject to final orders of deportation. It continues with an …