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From: wiso@ihwpt.UUCP (Jack Wisowaty)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.legal,net.politics
Subject: Re: ACLU and Parent's Rights
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 11:38:12 EDT
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> In article <11821@rochester.UUCP> ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes:
> 
> >>> When that 15 yr. old Russian boy wanted to stay in America and not leave
> >>> the country with his parents several years ago, the ACLU said he must
> >>> go back.
> 
> >> I don't agree that the boy should've been forced to go back to Russia.  
> >> (What's the whole story of the ACLU's involvement in this case, anyway?)  
> 
> >I don't know anything more than that the ACLU said it was unconstitutional
> >for the immigration department to give permission to the boy to stay here
> >against his parent's wishes.
> 
> If I remember correctly, the boy in question turned 18 over the summer,
> throwing a tremendous monkey wrench into the case.
> 
When Walter Polavchak (sp?) turns 18 this October it will not throw a
monkey wrench into anything.  His battle will be won.  As a legal adult he
will have every right to stay in the US and apply for American citizenship.
Polavchak's lawyers successfully stalled legal proceedings until the
outcome of those proceedings became a mute point.  Good luck to him!

Jack Wisowaty