USA: family faces deportation after lawyer errs

from the Des Moines Register:

Washington residents are shocked that a family of eight who have lived in southeast Iowa for 13 years is being deported due to an error in paperwork by a now-disbarred attorney.
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Four of Olegario Lopez's six children and his wife are being forced to leave the United States by March 2005 after former attorney Rufino Villarreal filed for political asylum for the family even though they hadn't requested it.
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