United States Fourth Circuit

Order of removal, based on petitioner's status as an alien convicted of an aggravated felony and two crimes involving moral turpitude, is affirmed over claim of petitioner, an Ethiopian national, that he automatically became a citizen as a minor when his mother was naturalized.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/29/2005
• Decided 10/26/2006
• Published 10/26/2006

Judges

• Before WIDENER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and WALTER D. KELLEY, JR., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  David Goren, Silver Spring, Maryland, for Petitioner.   Michelle Gorden Latour, Senior Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.   ON BRIEF:  Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, M. JocelynLopez Wright, Assistant Director, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.