United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of a petition for habeas corpus alleging that petitioner's detention pending removal proceedings deprived him of liberty without due process of law is affirmed where: 1) the immigration code bars the court from ordering the release of an alien pending judicial review of the order of removal; and 2) the principle that an alien may be released if, six months after the beginning of the removal period there is no significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future, does not apply when judicial review of the removal order is pending.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/29/2007
• Decided 12/18/2007
• Published 12/18/2007

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before CUDAHY, POSNER, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Iris E. Bennett (argued), Jenner & Block, Washington, DC, Geoffrey Heeren, Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Douglas E. Ginsburg (argued), Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondents-Appellees.