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At the same time when the latest issue in US immigration law is the proposed action by President Obama to safeguard from deportation as many as five million illegals in the United States, the John Lennon case assumes special relevance, notwithstanding the passage of 40 years since he was located in deportation proceedings. This is John and Yoko's extraordinary story, as told by the attorney who fought in leading lines. In 1972 President Richard M. Nixon found that John Lennon was going to the United States. Nixon was told that Lennon's extended presence here could be catastrophic to his plan for reelection. Lennon, who possessed just made an appearance before an audience of 15,000 young supporters at the College or university of Michigan at Ann Arbor, was rumored to be likely to sign up for Jerry Rubin to lead some rock and roll music rallies to "Dump Nixon" in expectation of the 1972 Republican National Convention. The special need for the 1972 convention was the fact that this will be the first countrywide election where the voting era was reduced from 21 to 18, adding 5 to 10 million new prospective voters. Nixon had not been favored by this young group. Lennon was. Indeed, Senator Strom Thurmond possessed just written a Dear John notice to Nixon's lawyer standard, John Mitchell, suggesting that deporting Lennon quickly would be an "appropriate countermeasure". John Mitchell was the head of CREEP, the Committee to Reelect the President; his day job was as lawyer general, responsible for deporting unlawful aliens. Following the Watergate-style advice of his legal counsel, John Dean, Nixon decided to "use the available political equipment to screw our political opponents" and proceeded in earnest to deport Lennon and his designer better half, Yoko Ono. Lennon and Ono consulted Leon Wildes, a specialist in neuro-scientific immigration law, about the reason for their visit: their attempts to find and secure custody of Kyoko, Yoko's American eight-year-old child with a prior matrimony. American courts possessed granted Lennon and Ono custody, and Ono's preceding partner violated the order to create the kid in courtroom, as purchased. Notwithstanding the Lennons' humanitarian demands, extensions of stay as tourists were denied, the Lennons were located in tight deportation proceedings, and the US commissioner of immigration instructed the Immigrant and Naturalization Service (INS) never to adjudicate the "outstanding performers" applications registered for Lennon and Ono by Wildes until following the Lennons were deported. Wildes retained the Lennons here for five years, despite the efforts of the federal government to deport them. During all that point, the Nixon supervision invariably stated that the Lennons were being cured like all other aliens and this it possessed no expert to make exceptions to their tight enforcement and removal of deportable aliens.
