CONCORD, NH If our state s Energy Efficiency Resource Standard has a future – and, as the state s ratepayer advocate, I m here to say it should – we just might have Jagdish Rai Chadha, a former Kenyan exchange student, to thank.
Let me explain.
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Forty-nine year ago, Chadha was pursuing a master s degree at Bowling Green University in Ohio when his visa expired. He had a problem: newly independent, Kenya wouldn t take him back because his parents were from India and, thus, British subjects. India wouldn t take him because he was Kenyan.
Here in the U.S., immigration authorities began deportation proceedings. Then the authorities suspended the deportation under a federal law that allowed Chadha to stay in the U.S., but only if neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate vetoed the bureaucrats decision to stay the deportation.
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