Legal Opinion
United States v. Casasola
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 30, 2012No. 10-50376PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
I. INTRODUCTION
Gustavo Adolfo Suchite Casasola (“Suchite”), a Guatemalan citizen, appeals his conviction and sentence for illegal reentry into the United States after removal, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. Suchite ehal lenges the validity of his underlying removal, contending that he is a U.S. citizen. Suchite argues that he automatically derived U.S. citizenship upon his father’s naturalization in 1997, when Suchite was fourteen. At that time, the controlling statute granted automatic derivative citizenship to foreign-born children of married parents only…
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