Legal Opinion
Haile v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 6, 2010No. 08-4187PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner was born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, in 1976. His parents were of Eritrean origin, but at the time Eritrea was a part of Ethiopia and both they and he were Ethiopian citizens. In 1993 Eritrea separated amicably from Ethiopia. In anticipation of Eritrean independence the parents had moved there the previous year, and after Eritrea became independent they acquired Eritrean citizenship and renounced their Ethiopian citizenship. But the petitioner, though a minor (he was 16 or 17), stayed behind.
In 1998 Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war, and…
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