ZARAGOZA v. GARLAND

Nos. 19-3437 & 20-1591.

52 F.4th 1006 (2022)

Dulce M. ZARAGOZA, Petitioner, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 8, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert N. Hochman, Attorney, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL, Charles Roth, Attorney, National Immigrant Justice Center, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Dana M. Camilleri, Attorney, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Nadia Anguiano-Wehde, Benjamin Richard Casper Sanchez, Attorneys, University of Minnesota Law School, James H. Binger Center for New Americans, Minneapolis, MN, for Amici Curiae American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Immigration Council, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Immigrant Defense Project, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Harvard Law School Crimmigration Clinic, National Immigration Litigation Alliance.

Kari Hong, Attorney, Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, Tucson, AZ, for Amicus Curiae Immigration Professors, Scholars, and Clinicians.

Before Sykes, Chief Judge, and Flaum and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


Dulce Zaragoza, a native and citizen of Mexico and a lawful permanent resident of the United States, pleaded guilty to the Indiana offense of criminal neglect of a dependent after locking her six-year-old son in a closet for six hours. She was sentenced to one year in jail suspended to time served plus 30 days, with the remainder...

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