CASTRO-CORTEZ v. I.N.S.

Nos. 99-35314, 99-35511, 99-35786, 99-70267, 99-70357, 99-70474.

239 F.3d 1037 (2001)

Carlos CASTRO-CORTEZ, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. Jose Luis Araujo, Petitioner, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent. Francisco Mario Funes-Quevado, A.K.A. Francisco Mario Funes, Petitioner, v. Janet Reno, Attorney General, Respondent. Ramon Rueda, Petitioner, v. Richard C. Smith, District Director and Janet Reno, Attorney General, Respondents. Nestor Salinas-Sandoval, Petitioner, v. Janet Reno, Attorney General, Richard Eugene Smith, and Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 23, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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.

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

Before: WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., STEPHEN REINHARDT, and FERDINAND F. FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.


REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) Pub.L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009-546 (1996) breathed new life into a dormant provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) that permitted the INS to reinstate prior orders of removal against aliens who reentered the United States.1 The revised provision, codified at INA § 241(a)(5), 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(5), not...

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