United States Seventh Circuit

Petitioner was a removable alien and did not automatically acquire U.S. citizenship when the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 took effect. The expanded definition of "aggravated felony" under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 applies retroactively.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/04/2002
• Decided 04/07/2003
• Published 04/07/2003

Judges

• COFFEY, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and COFFEY and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Harold D. Block, Milwaukee, WI, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• George P. Katsivalis, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, Michele Y.F. Sarko, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondents.