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LINNAS v. I.N.S.

No. 895, Docket 85-4163.

790 F.2d 1024 (1986)

Karl LINNAS, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 8, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivars Berzins, Babylon, N.Y., for petitioner.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty. for Southern Dist. of N.Y., New York City, Neal M. Sher, Director Office of Special Investigations, Washington, D.C. (Michael D. Patrick, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., Michael Wolf, Deputy Director Office of Special Investigations, Steven E. Obus, Asst. U.S. Atty., Philip L. Sunshine, Aron A. Golberg, Trial Attys., Office of Sp. Investigations, of counsel) for respondent.

Eli M. Rosenbaum, New York City, for The World Jewish Congress, amicus curiae.

Marc D. Stern, Phil Baum, New York City (Samuel Rabinove, Dennis Rapps, of counsel), for American Jewish Congress, amicus curiae.

Before PIERCE, MINER and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.

ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner, Karl Linnas, seeks review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") determining that petitioner must be deported to the Soviet Union. The BIA ordered Linnas deported under section 241(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a), because of Linnas' active participation in the Nazi persecution of Estonian Jews during World War II. The Soviet Union was designated as the country of deportation...

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