Teresa De Jesus Blanco v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

VAN GRAAFEILAND,

Circuit Judge, concurring separately:

I concur in the result reached by my colleagues, but I do so with reservations. In the first place, I depart from my colleagues’ description of the Board’s ruling as a “compendium of errors.” The Board considered Blanco’s claim of hardship as it related to her application for suspension of deportation and rejected it. This was not a “compendium of errors.”

Secondly, I am concerned about the prece-dential effect of my colleagues’ treatment of generalized violence as the equivalent of “extreme hardship.” Civil unrest and generalized violence…