Legal Opinion
Aguirre v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 28, 2013No. 12-1063PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Jesus Ernesto Aguirre petitions for review of an order denying his application for suspension of deportation, a form of relief that was available to certain nonciti-zens before 1996. To be eligible for suspension of deportation, Aguirre had to show that he had accrued seven years of continuous physical presence in the United States since his arrival. In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (“IIRIRA”), Pub.L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009, 3009-546. This law, among other changes, enacted a statute known as the…
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