Rapper Slick Rick Faces Deportation Again

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Rapper Slick Rick Faces Deportation Again
2006-10-21
More than a decade after an immigration judge first ruled that Slick Rick's "outstanding equities" entitled the British-born rapper to remain in America despite the efforts of the federal government to deport him for committing a felony here in 1990, he is once again facing deportation. Rick's case has been revived by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), whose predecessor, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) twice ordered the rapper deported and was twice denied by the courts. On September 21, at the urging of the DHS, the Appeals Court of the 2nd Circuit in New York overturned the decision that freed Rick from federal detention in 2003 and allowed him to resume his life and career. The government argues that Rick's case should be "properly heard" in the 11th Circuit, which includes Miami, where Rick was arrested for "deporting himself" in June of 2002....
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