United States Eleventh Circuit

Under 8 USC 1101(a)(13), evidence that alien crash-landed on American soil while attempting to smuggle drugs into the country is sufficient to support a finding of entry with the intent to avoid inspection.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/06/2001
• Published 04/06/2001

Judges

• ANDERSON, Chief Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, CARNES, Circuit Judge, and NANGLE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tammy Fox-Isicoff, Leah L. Rogel, Bander, Fox-Isicoff & Associates, P.A., Miami, FL, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• David V. Bernal, Anthony Cardozo Payne, Heather R. Phillips, Anne R. Schultz, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Appellees.