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•V Alien Legalization Archbishop Requests Eased Rules PAGE 13 — The Georgia Bulletin, April 16, 1987 LOS ANGELES (NC) - Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has asked the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to establish rules that would ease the legalization of aliens. Regulations should be designed to help preserve family unity, to make the law work “generously,” to Supreme Court Delays Illinois Abortion Case BY LIZ SCHEVTCHUK WASHINGTON (NC) — Calling for new briefs on a technical aspect of an Illinois abortion law dispute, the U.S. Supreme Court apparently has put off arguments on the case until its fall 1987 term. The high court had been scheduled to hear arguments in the case, Hartigan vs. Zbaraz, on April 1. But on March 30 it postponed the hearings indefinitely, then announced April 7 that it has called for filing of addi tional materials, dealing with procedural issues, by May 23. According to Edward R. Grant, executive director and general counsel of the Chicago-based Americans United for Life, a pro-life law firm, the court’s latest directive means that arguments in the case could not be scheduled before the court’s fall 1987 session. The Illinois statute at issue had demanded that a girl under age 18 wait 24 hours after notifying her parents before obtaining an abortion or — to by-pass the parental notice requirement — get a judge’s permission for the abor tion. Grant said the justices want additional material on the question of whether the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals mistakenly held up application of the whole law because the Illinois Supreme Court had not issued rules for using the op tion of judicial permission. “The (Illinois Supreme) Court has just not acted, for whatever reason,” in drafting the anticipated rules. Grant said in a telephone interview. Americans United for Life submitted a friend-of-the-court brief and had helped draft the 1983 law challenged in the case: Grant said the U.S. Supreme Court’s delay on the case is welcome in one sense because attorneys had feared the high court might, for technical reasons, decline to proceed with the case. “It’s not a cause for outright jubilation, but certainly a relief that they are going to hear the case,” he said April 8. Among the problems surrounding the case is whether the dispute should be at the Supreme Court level at all, or, instead, back in lower court awaiting further Illinois Supreme Court action on the expected rules, Grant said. NHR NICK HOMK REPAIR « Plaster. Stucco. Painting Remodeling A Room Additions NICK Rock General Contractor Brick 18 yrs. experience BEEPER HOME 360-99SO 934-6624 Blocks Tiles COMPANIONS Aide-$5.50/hr or $48/day live-in Car • References Bonded Lucas Medical Care 349-4030 HAS SOCIAL SECURITY TURNED YOU DOWN FOR DISABILITY? CALL 371-8233 CYNTHIA L. 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Final rules for implementation of the law are expected to be announced in early May. Some 120 Catholic pa rishes and community centers in the Los Angeles Archdiocese have estab lished registration centers for aliens seeking legaliza tion, and by early April they had registered almost 270,000 applicants. Archbishop Mahony was named in January to the newly formed U.S. Com mission on Agricultural Workers, which will review the impact of the new im migration act on aliens in the farm labor sector. He is a former chairman of the California Labor Relations Board and former secre tary of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Farm Labor. Saying Congress never intended in the immigra tion bill to break up families, the archbishop protested regulatory provi sions under which aliens eligible for the amnesty ATTENTION Time On Your Hands EARN $$$ SELLING NO RUN PANTYHOSE No Investment Or Inventory CALL 587-4556 SE HABLA ESPANOL | II I! 8 i > ii. tiM * ; * ' fii f %?: St. i t ,,L sfifl POLICY PROTEST — Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit addresses a Detroit rally in April called to express opposition to U.S. policies in Central America. Carol Jachim, left, and Agnes Marie Miller, center, are among the 6,000 people participating in the rally and march. (NC photos by Jim West) would be accepted but other members of the same fami ly could be deported. By granting “derivative eligibility” to others in the family of an eligible alien, he said, the INS would pre vent family separations now and avoid an “in evitable deluge of future relative petitions.” He praised INS efforts to streamline and simplify legalization processes but said the proposed re quirements of documenta tion are stricter than they need to be and application fees are too high. “Congress did not intend the amnesty program to be self-supporting, nor that the fee serve as a prohibition for an otherwise eligible alien,” he said. Instead of the proposed application fee of $185 per adult and $50 per child up to a maximum of $420 per family, he said the fee should be “ no more than $50 per individual applicant with a maximum fee of $100 per family.” Archbishop Mahony also asked for more lenient in terpretations of ‘'con tinuous residence” re quirements for different classifications of aliens. 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