Legal Opinion
Nijjar v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 1, 2012No. 07-74054, 08-70933PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KLEINFELD, Senior Circuit Judge:
We address whether the Department of Homeland Security has authority to terminate an alien’s asylum status, and conclude that it does not. The issue arises out of structural changes to our immigration system made when the Department of Homeland Security assumed functions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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Petitioners, Gurjeet Singh Nijjar and his wife, Paramjit Kaur Nijjar, are natives and citizens of India. Mr. Nijjar applied for asylum in 1995, based on political persecution he claimed to have suffered in India from 1991 to 1994, on account…
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