[Yamer]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Yeah...i heard a brief interview with his attorney before the hearing and he was pretty clear that there was no alternative but to grant the deportation order if the court followed the law. It was as black and white as it gets.

He will be able to appeal though if I understood correctly, so his journey is not necessarily over at this point. I think the decision had to be made in order for the appeals etc to be able to be made. Its only now that his counsel really starts to do their work.

Thanks for sharing this. With the optics of it I figured it was some sort of automatic lawful procedure to get to the next step(s).