United States Fifth Circuit

Section 241(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act does not have an impermissible retroactive effect as applied to appellant, who re-entered the United States before the statute's effective date, and corresponding regulations did not violate his due process rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/09/2002
• Published 05/09/2002

Judges

• W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:, Before ALDISERT , DAVIS and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Conn Felix Sanchez (argued), Kansas City, KS, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barry Joseph Pettinato (argued), David V. Bernal, Thomas Ward Hussey, Director, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Immigration Litigation, John Ashcroft, Civ. Div., App. Staff, Washington, DC, Luis Garcia, U.S. INS, El Paso, TX, Christine G. Davis, U.S. INS, Attn: Joe A. Aguilar, New Orleans, LA, for Respondent.