Angelica Sanchez v. Miriam Lopez Sanchez

ON SECOND PETITION FOR PANEL REHEARING

LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:

Today, for the third time, we address an appeal by three children who are natives of Mexico, who seek reversal of the district court’s finding under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction that they were being wrongfully retained in the United States and should be returned to Angelica Sanchez, their mother. While this appeal was pending, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services granted the children asylum. This new evidence is critical to determining whether one or more of…