Legal Opinion

Al-Naji v. Mukasey

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided March 13, 2008No. 07-1030Published

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

An immigration judge (IJ) denied petitioner Yousef al-Naji’s request for withholding of removal, see 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3)(A), a decision that the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) upheld. Al-Naji petitions us to review the IJ’s and BIA’s decisions. We deny the petition.

I. History

Agents with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service arrested alNaji, a Jordanian national, in 2002 after determining that he was in the United States illegally. Al-Naji confirmed that fact to the agents while detained; he admitted that he entered the United States *582in November 1999 on a non-immigrant…

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