Legal Opinion
Perez-Macedo v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 20, 2010No. 10-60080PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM: *
Erika Perez-Macedo, a native and citizen of Mexico, has filed a petition for review from the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying her motion to reopen. She contends that the BIA erred in determining that she did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel with respect to her application for cancellation of removal. According to PerezMacedo, her ineffective assistance claim was cognizable because she had a due process right under the Fifth Amendment to a fair hearing in her immigration proceedings.
*829“[D]iscretionary relief from removal ... is not a liberty or…
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