Legal Opinion
Luis Alvarez-Mendez v. Fred J. Stock, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 12, 1991No. 90-55447PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEEZER, Circuit Judge:
Luis Alvarez-Mendez is an excluded alien who has been held in detention since 1988 because Cuba, his nation of citizenship, will not accept his repatriation. He filed a petition for habeas corpus, claiming his continued detention lacks statutory authority and violates the Constitution of the United States and rules of international law. The district court denied his petition. We affirm.
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Alvarez-Mendez arrived in the United States on May 20, 1980. He was one of over 100,000 Cuban refugees, known as “Mariel Cubans,” who came to Florida by boat from the port of Mariel,…
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