Federal Court of Appeals: you can’t deport ILLEGALS just for being drunks

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Building

You Cant make this crap up:

Some great news for all of you in the habitual drinking class who may be worried about a visit from Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that being a “drunkard” is not sufficient grounds to deport someone on the basis of having poor moral character. I’m sure we can all drink to that. (Daily Caller)

A federal appeals court struck down a U.S. immigration law that allows the government to deport someone for being a habitual drunkard, ruling Thursday the law illegally equates alcoholism with bad moral character.

“There is no rational basis to classify people afflicted by chronic alcoholism as innately lacking good moral character,” the three-panel court said in the majority opinion, citing the Equal Protection Clause in the Constitution.

Salomon Ledezma-Cosino is a Mexican citizen previously unable to appeal a deportation order, because he was found to be a habitual drunkard — at one point drinking a liter of tequila a day on average for 10 years. But if the court’s ruling stands, he’ll be able to petition the attorney general to remain in the country.

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