ALIMI v. ASHCROFT

No. 03-1607, 03-4010.

391 F.3d 888 (2004)

Selman ALIMI, et al., Petitioners, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 10, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Sesini (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for Petitioners.

George P. Katsivalis, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the District Counsel, Chicago, IL, Virginia M. Lum, Anthony W. Norwood (argued), Dept. of Justice Civil Div., Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before EASTERBROOK, MANION, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Selman Alimi entered the United States in 1986 without inspection — in other words, by stealth. He was at the time a citizen of Yugoslavia. When that nation disintegrated, he became a citizen of what the United States calls the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Selman evaded detection in this nation for more than four years but in 1990 applied for asylum. He contends that as an ethnic Albanian, and a participant in an organization...

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