Legal Opinion
Castro v. United States Department of Homeland Security
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 29, 2016No. 16-1339PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Petitioners are twenty-eight families— twenty-eight women and their minor children — who filed habeas petitions in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to prevent, or at least postpone, their expedited removal from this country. They were ordered expeditiously removed by the Department of *425Homeland Security (DHS) pursuant to its authority under § 235(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1). Before DHS could effect their removal, however, each petitioning family indicated a fear of persecution if…
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- Plyler v. DoeSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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