Legal Opinion
Selma Alizoti v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 26, 2007No. 05-4493, 06-3067PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEYBURN, Chief D.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which BATCHELDER, J., joined. MERRITT, J. (pp. 454-56), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
JOHN G. HEYBURN II, Chief District Judge.
In a consolidated appeal, Petitioner Selma Alizoti appeals both the denial of her motion to reopen by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) and the denial of her motion to reconsider by the BIA. This is another difficult immigration' case in which we must resist the temptation to impose our own sense of justice as if this were a de novo review. We AFFIRM the BIA on both matters.
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