Shibeshi Lema v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service John Ashcroft, Attorney General Robert S. Coleman, Jr.

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal from the district court’s denial of a habeas corpus petition, we must decide whether the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s two-year continued detention of a removable alien is authorized by 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(1)(C) when the alien is refusing to cooperate fully with officials to secure travel documents from a foreign government. We hold that such an alien cannot meet his or her burden to show thereis no significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future and that the alien’s continued detention therefore is authorized. We…