Legal Opinion
Amaya v. Sessions
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 16, 2017No. 16-4042Published
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Hector Amaya, a 48-year-old citizen of Mexico, has been trying to avoid removal from the United States for some time. He failed to persuade the Board of Immigration Appeals that he ran a serious risk of torture if he were to be returned to Mexico, but he did not ask this court to review that decision. Instead, he returned to the Board with a motion to reconsider its adverse ruling. The Board stuck to its guns and denied relief. This time, Amaya did file a petition for review of the latter decision. In this situation, the only order before us is the Board’s refusal to reconsider its first…
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