United States Ninth Circuit

Immigration and Nationality Act Section 241(a)(5), which permits the INS to reinstate prior orders of removal against aliens who reentered the U.S., does not apply to aliens who reentered the country before the effective date of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/14/2000
• Decided 01/23/2001
• Published 01/23/2001

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  CANBY, Jr., REINHARDT, and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marc Van Der Hout, and Trina Realmuto, San Francisco, California, for petitioners Carlos Castro-Cortez;  Jose Luis Araujo;  and Mario Funes-Quevado., Camille K. Cook, San Francisco, California, for petitioner Carlos Castro-Cortez., Lisa Ellen Seifert, Olympia, Washington, for petitioner Ramon Rueda., Matt Adams, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Granger, Washington, for petitioner Nestor Salinas-Sandoval., Marc Van Der Hout and Trina Realmuto, The American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco, California, amici curaie for petitioner Nestor Salinas-Sandoval.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy P. McIlmail, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondents.