Carlos Perez v. Kenneth J. Elwood, District Director Immigration and Naturalization Service

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by Carlos Perez, a Colombian national and U.S. permanent resident, from an order of the District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the district where Perez is held in INS detention, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition challenged the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) affirmance of an order of removal entered by an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) following Perez’s conviction for conspiracy to launder money. In his habeas petition, Perez challenged the BIA’s conclusion that he is ineligible to apply…