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Article: Immigrants feel cheated by consultants.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 3, 2001
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Juan Munoz, a father of seven who has lived in Watsonville off and on for 21 years, faces a critical deadline Thursday. He must return to Mexico voluntarily or risk deportation, either of which includes a 10-year ban from re-entering the United States.
Munoz has built his case largely on blaming the private immigration consultants he hired to assist in his petition for legal residency. He claims these consultants provided erroneous and unlawful advice.
Munoz has plenty of company.
Each year hundreds, perhaps thousands, of illegal immigrants in California and elsewhere turn to consultants, who aren't required to have legal ...