Legal Opinion
Fernandez v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 15, 2008No. 06-3476, 06-3987, 06-3994PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Petitioners Florencio Victor Jimenez-Mateo, Julio Calderon, and Omar Cende-jas-Fernandez (collectively “petitioners”) were ordered removed from this country. The orders of removal were based on findings that petitioners’ most recent state-court convictions for drug possession offenses constituted aggravated felonies under § 101(a)(43)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), because each of the petitioners had previously been convicted of a controlled substance offense. The petitioners have filed' timely petitions for review in this…
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