Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit September 1, 2004, 03-2757 (Abel Mehari Nigussie v. John D. Ashcroft, as Attorney General of the United States, and Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services)

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

I. History

On March 5, 2000, Abel Mehari Nigus-sie, an Ethiopian citizen of allegedly Eritrean origin, entered the United States as a nonimmigrant using a fraudulent passport. He was detained at the Los Angeles

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International Airport and interviewed by an Immigration and Naturalization Service

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(“INS”) officer and found to be inadmissible.