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Bernabe Chitay-Pirir v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided March 10, 1999No. 98-3072PublishedCited by 39 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Bernabe Chitay-Pirir, a citizen of Guatemala, entered the United States in 1996 “without inspection” — meaning that he stole across the Mexican border. He was caught and has been in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service ever since, awaiting deportation. To avoid being returned to Guatemala, Chitay-Pirir filed an application for asylum. He made a plausible case. Between 1960 and the end of 1996 a civil war raged in Guatemala. Guerrillas under the banner of the Unidad Revolucionario Nacional Guatemalteco (urng) opposed a succession of autocratic…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-FonsecaSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  2. Immigration & Naturalization Service v. StevicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  3. M. L. B. v. S. L. J.Supreme Court of the United States · 1996
  4. Daniel B. Salameda and Angelita C. Salameda v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
  5. Ana Maria Hengan v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1996

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3Cited by39 opinions

  1. Tian-Yong Chen, A.K.A. Tian Yong Chen v. United States Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2004
  2. Mario Ernesto Navas v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
  3. Samer Mansour v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
  4. Yetunde Balogun v. John D. AshcroftCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
  5. Nourain B. Niam, and Peter Blagoev, Iordanka Kissiova, and Iana Kissiova v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004

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