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Nov. 11, 2008

Bringing an Immigrant's View to the 9th Circuit

Judge Carlos T. Bea Grew Up in Spain and Likes to Educate New Americans on the Law

Carlos T. Bea

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Circuit Judge Carlos T. Bea has a unique slant on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' staggering immigration docket.

Bea, 74, was born in Spain's Basque region and is himself an immigrant, the son of a Cuban father and a Spanish mother. Indeed, a U.S. immigration officer once ordered Bea deported and he was forced to plead his case before the Board of Immigration Appeals.

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