2001 - Population

Population

The U.S. Immigration and Nationalization Services announces in late May that it will start charging foreign athletes, corporate executives, and scientists an extra $1,000 each to speed the processing of their temporary work visas.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules 5 to 4 June 25 that immigrants may challenge the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Calcano-Martinez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS]). Attorney General Ashcroft has argued that the 1996 law stripped federal courts of their powers to review such cases and that the laws could be applied retroactively, but Justice John Paul Stevens says in his majority opinion that legal immigrants who pleaded guilty under the old law "almost certainly relied" on their right to a court review in deciding whether to forgo their right to a trial. Chief Justice Rehnquist joins with Justices Scalia and Thomas in Justice O'Connor's dissenting opinion.

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