Experts have started excavating a mass grave in Serbia believed to contain at least 250 bodies of ethnic Albanians who were killed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.

The Serbian government official dealing with the wartime missing, Veljko Odalovic, said on Wednesday that the excavation in the village of Rudnica, near Serbia's border with Kosovo, will take about 60 days.

A house had to be torn down before the work could begin. A nearby site was excavated earlier but no bodies were found.

International peacekeepers believe Serbs hid the grave's real location.

Some 10,000 people were killed during the conflict between Serbian security troops and Kosovo separatists and hundreds of bodies were transferred to central Serbia to hide evidence of atrocities.

Kosovo declared independence in 2008.  I. BACKGROUND FACTS

A.    Removal Proceedings

      In June 1996, Hernandez, a citizen of Mexico, was admitted to the United

States as a nonimmigrant visitor with authorization to remain until July 2, 1996.

Hernandez remained in the United States, without authorization, for years beyond

the date permitted by his visa. In 2003, Hernandez began working at Alatrade

Foods (“Alatrade”) in Alabama without authorization. In 2006, Hernandez

married a U.S. citizen with whom he had two children.

      In 2007, Hernandez was served with a Notice to Appear (“NTA”) charging

him with removability. The initial NTA charged Hernandez with being present in

the United States without inspection. An amended NTA, however, dropped the

initial ground and instead charged Hernandez with three new grounds for

removability: (1)