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Hylton v. Sessions - "Antoine Hylton, a Jamaican national, petitions for review of the May 9, 2017 order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), which found him ineligible for cancellation of removal because his prior state conviction...

Zuniga-Perez v. Sessions - "Petitioners Juan Martin Zuniga‐Perez and Elder Hernandez‐Ocampo seek review of a March 10, 2017, decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (the ʺBIAʺ) affirming a February 24, 2016, decision of an immigration judge...

Hylton v. Sessions - "Antoine Hylton, a Jamaican national, petitions for review of the May 9, 2017 order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), which found him ineligible for cancellation of removal because his prior state conviction...

Gao v. Sessions, Shao v. Sessions, May 25, 2018 - "These petitions for review heard in tandem challenge two decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals (the ʺBIAʺ), affirming decisions by two Immigration Judges (ʺIJsʺ), denying asylum, withholding...

Obeya v. Sessions, Mar. 8, 2018 - "Clement Obeya, a lawful permanent resident of the United States, was convicted of petit larceny under New York law. The government sought to remove Obeya for his conviction, treating it as a “crime involving...

U.S. v. Gonzales - "Defendant‐Appellant Winifredo Gonzales appeals from a judgment of conviction in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Geraci, C.J.), arguing that his guilty plea was not knowingly entered. During...

Doe v. Sessions, Mar. 29, 2018 - "Petitioner John Doe seeks review of an April 13, 2016 judgment of the Bureau of Immigration Appeals dismissing his appeal from an October 22, 2015 decision of an Immigration Judge ordering Doe’s removal and...

Zelaya de Ceron v. Lynch, May 4, 2016, unpub. - "The sole issue on appeal is whether substantial evidence supports the agency’s determination that the Petitioners failed to show that the Salvadoran government is unable or unwilling to control...

"Defendant Walter Yovany Vasquez Macias appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Richard Arcara, Judge), in which he was convicted after a jury trial of being “found in” the United...

Guerra v. Shanahan , July 29, 2016 - "Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Wood, J.) granting Petitioner‐Appellee Deyli Noe Guerra’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus and ordering...

"[W]e pause to express a concern, unrelated to the grounds on which we resolve this appeal. At argument, we asked the government, for informational purposes, whether Akinsade’s case might be one in which relief from prosecution would be exercised...

"We find no error in the agency’s factual conclusion that Ay provided material support to a terrorist organization. We remand, however, to permit the BIA to address in a precedential decision whether the Immigration and Nationality Act (the...

"Petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision ordering the petitioner’s removal, denying his request for a waiver of inadmissibility under § 212(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C....

"Under federal immigration law, Efstathiadis’ removal turns on whether the crime he was convicted of—C.G.S. § 53a‐73a(a)(2)—is a CIMT. The answer to that question, in turn, implicates the level of mens rea applicable to C.G...

"The BIA denied Indradjaja’s motion to reopen because she had not submitted an affidavit in support of the new evidence she proffered, and because she had not submitted copies of the sources on which her expert relied, it refused to consider...