Legal Opinion
Rolando M. Sierra, Sr. v. D. Romaine, Warden Immigration & Naturalization Service John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided October 29, 2003No. 02-2826PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
This matter comes on before this court on Rolando Sierra’s appeal from an order entered in the district court on June 18, 2002, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. 1 Sierra is a 41-year-old Cuban national who arrived in the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel boatlift during which over 125,000 Cubans crossed by boat from Mariel harbor in Cuba to the United States. 2 See JA 7. Immigration officials stopped Sierra and most Mariel Cubans at the border as they were “ex-cludable” under the then…
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