Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 1, 2008No. 08-1126PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, originally a lawful permanent resident of the United States, was ordered removed because of a drug conviction. That was in 1996. In 2006, the order not having been executed (as is common, because of the limited resources of the immigration authorities, in cases in which the illegal alien is not a criminal), he was still in the United States and he filed a motion both to reopen the removal proceeding and to reconsider the order of removal. A motion to reopen presents new facts bearing on the decision to remove the alien, while a motion to reconsider points…
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