LWIN v. I.N.S.

No. 97-2490.

144 F.3d 505 (1998)

Mya LWIN, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 15, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas P. Martin (argued), Altheimer & Gray, Chicago, IL, Sioban Albiol, Midwest Immigrant Rights Center, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, Immigration & Naturalization Service, Chicago, IL, Kristal A. Marlow, Michelle Gluck, Stephen W. Funk (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before ESCHBACH, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


MANION, Circuit Judge.

Mya Lwin, a Burmese national, is the father of a student dissident who fled Burma in the wake of the military junta's crackdown on pro-democracy uprisings in 1988. Despite orders from the police that he report any contact with his son, Mya continued to maintain unauthorized communications with him, first when his son reached Thailand and later after his son made his way to the United States. Mya visited his son in the United States and then...

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