Legal Opinion
Mitondo v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 24, 2008No. 06-3178PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Mpoyi Mitondo, a citizen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (known as Zaire between 1971 and 1997), arrived in the United States from Scotland bearing a French passport. Citizens of France do not need visas to enter the United States, and Mitondo did not have one.
Only cursory checks are made of persons who carry the passports of nations participating in the visa-waiver program. But one of the checks is for the passport’s legitimacy, and Mitondo was detained because a blank bearing the number of the passport he presented had been stolen. He soon confessed that the…
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