Legal Opinion · Dissent

Garcia-Garcia v. Sessions

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided May 3, 2017No. 15-2571PPublished

1Dissent

STAHL, Circuit Judge,

dissenting.'

In 2007, Victor Garcia Garcia, a member of Guatemala’s indigenous Maya community, was scooped up in a large raid on a factory in New Bedford, Massachusetts, whisked away to a border detention center in Texas several days later, and, following a group hearing before an Immigration Judge, ordered removed from the United States. During these proceedings, Garcia did not have access to an attorney, nor was an interpreter made available to him (an interpreter would have certainly come in handy because the group hearing was conducted in Spanish, a language that…

2Cases cited41 opinions

  1. Marbury v. MadisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1803
  2. Immigration & Naturalization Service v. St. CyrSupreme Court of the United States · 2001
  3. Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-FonsecaSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  4. Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley AuthoritySupreme Court of the United States · 1936
  5. Roper v. SimmonsSupreme Court of the United States · 2005

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