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011430P.pdf   02/13/2002  Alfonso Portillo  v.  John Ashcroft
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  01-1430
   Agency   
   Civil case - Immigration. Section 241(a)(5) of the Immigration 
   and Nationality Act, enacted as part of the Illegal Immigration 
   Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, may be 
   applied to expedite all reinstatement proceedings commenced 
   prior to enactment of the section, but the substantive defenses 
   to removal eliminated by the section may not be retroactively 
   denied to aliens who illegally reentered the U.S. prior to 
   enactment; removal order vacated and case remanded for 
   further proceedings.