Court Opinion

ID: 9496458
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:27:21.897767+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:57:35.755210
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BEEZER, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the opinion of the court because I am bound by the court’s prior decision in Lin Guo Xi v. INS, 298 F.3d 832 (9th Cir.2002). Lin Guo Xi relies on the Supreme Court’s opinion in Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678, 121 S.Ct. 2491, 150 L.Ed.2d 653 (2001). Lin Guo Xi holds that under 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(6), inadmissable aliens are entitled to the same reasonable time limitations against indefinite detention as are deportable aliens.
I write separately because the holding in Lin Guo Xi, including its interpretation of Zadvydas, is contrary to the express holdings of the majority of our sister circuits which consider 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(6). See Benitez v. Wallis, 337 F.3d 1289, 1298-1301 (11th Cir.2003) (per curiam); Borrero v. Aljets, 325 F.3d 1003, 1007 (8th Cir.2003); Rios v. INS, 324 F.3d 296, 297 (5th Cir.2003); Hoyte-Mesa v. Ashcroft, 272 F.3d 989, 991-92 (7th Cir.2001), cert. denied, 537 U.S. 846, 123 S.Ct. 185, 154 L.Ed.2d 73 (2002); see also Rosales-Garcia v. Holland, 322 F.3d 386, 416-21 (6th Cir.2003) (Boggs, J., dissenting), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 123 S.Ct. 2607, 156 L.Ed.2d 627 (2003).