Legal Opinion
Sami Khan v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 4, 2014No. 13-2106, 13-3385PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Sami Ullah Khan seeks review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BA”) applying the “terrorism bar,” 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)(i)(D, a broad barrier to admissibility into the United States. Underneath the surface is an important legal question about the proper interpretation of an exception to the bar, but we can’t reach it because it wasn’t properly preserved for review.
Khan is a Mohajir, which means that his parents were immigrants into Pakistan when it was partitioned from the British Indian Empire in 1947. Some Mohajirs formed a political party — the…
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