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ENWONWU v. GONZALES

No. 05-2053.

438 F.3d 22 (2006)

Frank Igwebuike ENWONWU, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 13, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Carmel-Montes and Morton Sklar of the World Organization for Human Rights USA, with whom The Carmel Law Group was on brief, for petitioner.

Andrew C. MacLachlan, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, were on brief, for respondent.

Before LYNCH and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Frank Igwebuike Enwonwu is a Nigerian who entered the United States in 1986 as a heroin drug courier, on behalf, he said, of members of the Nigerian military. He was convicted the same year of federal drug felony crimes, which made him an aggravated felon for immigration law purposes. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B). He agreed to cooperate with the government and avoided imprisonment in exchange for being an informant.

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