The John Lennon - Deportation Proceedings

Letters to the INS - Joyce Carol Oates - novelist

Joyce Carol Oates had written five novels in 1972; in 1970 she won the National Book Award for them. Since then she has written 50 more.

"I certainly don't endorse many of their publicly-expressed opinions," Oates wrote, "but I believe that they, and anyone else, have the right to those opinions."