31.   They also provided lawyers to prepare kids for deportation hearings.

32.   They did not know they were in the middle of a battle between Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the federal government over when their deportation hearings should begin.

33.   Under present law, for example, a person charged with being here illegally and summoned to a deportation hearing may have a lawyer there.

34.   Under the old law, aliens leaving jail after a sentence could be detained for a deportation hearing but were often released on bond.

35.   Valesquez was detained by the INS after returning from a visit to his mother in Panama last December, and is free on bond while awaiting a deportation hearing.

36.   Videla did not return a telephone call Tuesday, and a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service declined to comment on the deportation hearings.

37.   Until recently, the immigration service had made little effort to locate people who failed to show up at deportation hearings and disappeared.

38.   When pressed to say how many fail to show up for their deportation hearings, he said the INS does not have the number.

39.   Others will face deportation hearings.

40.   A deportation hearing will be held Monday for the second of four men from the Toronto area accused of war crimes during the Second World War.