Legal Opinion
Jermaine Thomas v. Loretta Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 25, 2015No. 14-60297PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
Jermaine Amani Thomas petitions for review of an order that he be removed from the United States pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii) and (iii). Thomas, who was born on a United States military base located in what is now Germany, argues that he is not removable because he is a United States citizen by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment. For the following reasons, we DENY the petition for review.
I. BACKGROUND
Petitioner Jermaine Amani Thomas was born on August 9,1986, in a military hospital located on a U.S. military base in Frankfurt, Germany. Thomas’s father, a United…
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