Legal Opinion
Ana Maria Hengan v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 20, 1996No. 95-2939PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Ana Maria Hengan was bom in Romania, but her ancestry is Hungarian. During the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania pursued a policy of assimilating minority groups. This policy ended with Ceausescu’s government, and today Romania has many political parties and factions based on ethnicity. There is a corresponding anti-minority movement, the Party of Romanian National Unity (Vatra Romaneasca), which favors excluding ethnic minorities from the nation’s civic and economic life.
Approximately 11 percent of Romania’s population of 23 million is of Hungarian…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Jenica Borca v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1996
- Daniel B. Salameda and Angelita C. Salameda v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
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3Cited by43 opinions
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