United States Seventh Circuit

The deportation reinstatement provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), 8 U.S.C. section 1231(a)(5), is not impermissibly retroactive when applied to an alien who reentered the United States before, but applied for adjustment of status after, the IIRIRA's effective date.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/10/2004
• Decided 05/04/2005
• Published 05/04/2005

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, RIPPLE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Saadia Siddique (argued), Rebecca M. Reyes (argued), Azulay, Horn & Seiden, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner Rafal J. Labojewski., William A. Quiceno, Kempster, Keller & Lenz-Calvo, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner Faustino Chavez-Saldana.


• For Appellees:
  
• Papu Sandhu (argued), Michele Y.F. Sarko, Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, and George P. Katsivalis, Department of Homeland Security Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Respondent.