Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
Supreme Court justices will weigh arguments in a case involving a Nigerian man whom an immigration judge concluded materially supported a terrorist group by working as a cook.
Justices on Oct. 13 said they granted a petition for review from the Department of Justice to consider overturning a lower court verdict in the case.
No justices filed explanations for granting the petition or dissented from the move.
The case involves Izuchukwu Ozurumba, a Nigerian national. According to court documents, Ozurumba was looking for work and asked everyone he knew for leads, which led to a tip about working as a cook at an acquaintance's workplace.
The acquaintance declined to answer questions about his employer, and Ozurumba was taken to what he described as a rural camp that was patrolled by armed security officers. Ozurumba remained in the camp even after ascertaining the camp was run by a separatist group that sought to kill people working for the government because, he said, there was no way for him to leave.
Ozurumba spent about six months there before running away from a gas station while on a grocery shopping trip for the camp. He later entered the United States as an illegal immigrant.
An immigration judge determined that Ozurumba had provided material support to a terrorist organization by cooking for the group's leaders for six months. The judge ordered him deported. The Board of Immigrati
