Legal Opinion
Peralta-Cabrera v. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 7, 2007No. 06-2254PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
This is the second time that we are called to address Olger Peralta-Cabrera’s case, in which he petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (BIA) decision upholding the immigration judge’s (IJ) denial of his motion to reopen. The material facts are not disputed, and although we briefly discussed them in a 2006 order, we recount them here for the sake of clarity.
In November 1994, an IJ in Chicago ordered Peralta-Cabrera deported 1 in ab-sentia to his home country of Ecuador. Eight years later Peralta-Cabrera moved to reopen his deportation hearing, claiming…
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