Is an indigent alien entitled to have counsel furnished at government expense at a deportation hearing where the furnishing of counsel might have an effect upon the outcome of the hearing itself?

Nothing we say here is intended to express any opinion on the question whether, in a deportation hearing where the furnishing of counsel might have an effect upon the outcome of the deportation hearing itself, indigent aliens are entitled to have counsel furnished at government expense. That is another question, what this court has called a "grave" one, for another day. Carbonell v. INS, 460 F.2d 240 (2d Cir. 1972); see Haney, Deportation and the Right to Counsel, 11 Harv. Int'l L.J. 177 (1970).

Petition denied.