From the Phil. Inquirer:
Cheltenham lawyer Thomas Griffin has made the Caribbean nation his cause - in a controversial report and in his practice.
By Gaiutra Bahadur, Inquirer Staff Writer
It was more a PR stunt than a practical legal maneuver.
Attorneys in 11 cities filed the same sermonlike motion on Jan. 19, pleading with U.S. immigration judges to halt deportation of hundreds of Haitians on humanitarian grounds.
Thomas Griffin, the Cheltenham lawyer behind the campaign, knew the gambit was futile. Only the Department of Homeland Security has the power to grant "temporary protected status" to foreigners, and only if a natural disaster, ongoing armed conflict, or other extraordinary crisis has wracked their homelands.
But Griffin stage-managed the filings and emotional news conferences here and in Miami, New York and Boston - hubs for Haitians - for maximum effect in the run-up to elections tomorrow in the Caribbean nation.
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Monday, February 6, 2006
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