Petitioners Jorge Ramos Cervantes, Paola Ramos Cervantes, and Daniel Ramos Cervantes, who are siblings, seek appellate review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (the "BIA"), which rejected their attempt to forestall removal from the United States by obtaining temporary protected st...   MORE>>

In this criminal appeal, Defendant Margarito Chavez-Suarez challenges the substantive reasonableness of his sentence. Defendant pled guilty to illegally reentering the country following deportation after a conviction for a drugtrafficking offense. This drug-trafficking offense—a 1997 state court c...   MORE>>

Aung Si Thu (Thu), a native and citizen of Burma, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissing the appeal of the immigration judge’s (IJ) denial of Thu’s applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ...   MORE>>

Sylvanus Biko Freeman, a citizen of Liberia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") denial of his motion to reopen his removal proceedings. We deny the petition in part and dismiss the remainder for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

In 1997, Freeman entered the Unite...   MORE>>

Appellant Dario Mendoza-Mendoza, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty to one count of illegal entry into the United States following deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. Mendoza argued that a Guidelines sentence was excessive in light of various facts peculiar to his case. The district court, ...   MORE>>

Richard Kporlor is a Liberian citizen in his late twenties who has lived in the United States as a lawful permanent resident since September 2001. After returning from a trip to Liberia, Kporlor was detained when officials found that he had a criminal record, and removal proceedings were initiated a...   MORE>>

In September 2005, Milton Ronaldo Rodas Castro (“Rodas”), a native and citizen of Guatemala and a former police officer there, applied for asylum and withholding of removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158, 1231(b)(3), and for relief under the United Nati...   MORE>>

Petitioner William Herrera-Molina seeks review of a February 23, 2007 decision of the United States Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), reinstating a prior order of deportation for illegal entry, entered in July 1985 against Herrera-Molina. The first iss...   MORE>>

The petitioner, a Mexican citizen, entered the United States illegally by the use of someone else’s documentation and was promptly removed. 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1)(A)(i). Her removal made her ineligible to seek readmission to the United States for five years unless she obtained permission to reappl...   MORE>>

Jose Luis Urbina-Mejia seeks review of a Board of Immigration Appeals decision affirming an immigration judge’s denial of his applications for withholding of removal under section 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1231. The Board of Immigration Appeals erred in finding that U...   MORE>>