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Richard L. Fosmoen November 5, 1980
City Manager
Revocation of Parole
Cesar H. Odio
Assistant City Manager
The following is a succinct account of conversations held today with
Ray Morris, Director of the local office of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, and with James Gigante, Director of the Cuban -Haitian Task Force in
Miami.
A Plan to revoke paroles was submitted by the local INS office to, the Central
office in ':Jashington, D.C. for their a-oroval . The person in Washington ',.rho
is handling this affair is Acting Commissioner Carmichael. I requested from
Ray Morris a copy of the Plan in order to sho,.i it to you and the City Commission,
but he stated that this was a confidential matter and that no copies could be
given out. He did, ho,,-iever, outline some of the basic points of the Plan:
1) A parolee convicted of a crin.e, kqho can show that before the crime was
committed lie had goad means of support and a solid sponsor, rjould probably
not have his parole revoked, but the INS kl%ld reserve the right to
initiate exclusion proceedings against this individual at a later date.
2) Concerning parolees who are vagrants or those who have no visible means of
support, the INS ,;null like to decide, on a case by case basis, whether
these particular individuals should be ;eat to a camp for acculturation
and jol) training and be resettled for a second time after completion of the
progrcv,i, !a-hington's lenal opinion is hein(I sought at the present time.
3) Parolee , con%: i ctl d of a felony Would h,1ve to serve their time, however,
once they sir-, released from prison a decision �•:ould be made in each case
whether parole should be revoked.
4) At the present ti�le the Federal Court is hearing the case of the United
States v. ho,,t O:iners. �,&,) gent to Hari el . Ray Morris informed me that one
of the resul is from, this trial could be a ruling which would change the
status fro;!l applicant for parolee to refugee. This would, of course,
change the whole Plan.
In conclusion, f•'r. Gigante read me a memo from his office in Washington, in
which he was given orders not to get involved in revocation of parole, because
this is really an INS probler% lie did state, though, that if the Washington
INS office approves the Plan, he sees no reason why the Cuban -Haitian Task
Force should not get involved, because of the coordination required. He
also feels that if the legal opinion from Washington is positive, every-
thing would be ready to send individuals whose parole had been revoked to
Puerto Rico, where they would be placed in acculturation and job training
programs before sponsors would be sought out. J,
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Attention-: ..cil.ir,.y
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