1.   A deportation case is a civil proceeding, to which the Fifth Amendment does not apply.

2.   But the Justice Department argued that Congress had, lawfully, barred its use in these deportation cases.

3.   But while that debate goes on in Washington, the new reality is becoming clear in the courthouses where deportation cases are heard.

4.   Few courts have ever accepted a selective enforcement defense in a deportation case.

5.   Her story has twists that make it unusually harsh even by the standards of deportation cases.

6.   However, Congress allows such evidence in deportation cases.

7.   Last week, INS officials filed a motion to deny Mubarak bail while his deportation case is pending.

8.   Legal groups are suing to require the Immigration and Naturalization Service to provide free legal representation for hundreds of minors being detained in deportation cases.

9.   That is, immigration officials would simply decline to proceed with a deportation case.

10.   The choice is a hard one in deportation cases, in that the consequences of deportation are so final, unlike orders in some other administrative contexts.