Legal Opinion
Lazaro D. Borrero v. Curtis J. Aljets, Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 15, 2003No. 02-1506PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1005WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Lazaro Borrero is an inadmissible alien subject to a final order of removal. Because his native country, Cuba, will not accept his return, he was held in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) upon his release from prison on state drug and firearms charges on September 11, 2000. The district court granted Borrero’s petition for writ of ha-beas corpus, and he was released from INS custody on January 4, 2002. The government appeals, arguing that it has statutory authority to detain inadmissible aliens, indefinitely if necessary, pending…
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