ASANI v. I.N.S.

No. 97-3556.

154 F.3d 719 (1998)

Sefadin ASANI, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 3, 1998.

As Modified October 28, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay R. Hoffman (argued), Chicago, IL; Sefadin Asani, Carpentersville, IL, for Petitioner.

Michele Y.F. Sarko, Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC; Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, Immigration & Naturalization Service, Chicago, IL; Kristal A. Marlow, Alice E. Loughran (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, CUMMINGS and BAUER, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Sefadin Asani is an ethnic Albanian native of the former Yugoslavia and a citizen of Macedonia. His wife and one son live in Macedonia, and he and his other son live in the United States.

In 1983, Asani participated in a political demonstration in Kosovo which supported Albanian rights and advocated the creation of an independent Albanian state. Asani was arrested at the demonstration. The police detained him in jail for two weeks...

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