Legal Opinion
Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 25, 1985No. 84-4588PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals directing the petitioner to return to Mexico. Because we find no abuse of discretion in the decision below, we affirm the Board’s order.
I
The petitioner, Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez, is forty-eight years old and a native and citizen of Mexico. He entered the United States as a visitor on May 22, 1970. Although admitted for a maximum of seventy-two hours, he has remained in the United States up to the present, a period of over fourteen years.
Sanchez claims that he was forced to come to the United…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jong Ha WangSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Jorge Santana-Figueroa v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
- Jong Ha Wang and Kyung Hwa Wang v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
- Joaquin Marcelo Veron Ramos and Maria Milagros Ramos v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Ramona Zamora-Garcia v. United States Department of Justice Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1984
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3Cited by24 opinions
- William Palmer v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993
- Javier A. Martinez v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1992
- Maria Miriam Turri v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1993
- Patricio Hernandez-Cordero and Maria Guadalupe Ortega De Hernandez v. United States Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1987
- Felipe G. Garcia-Lopez v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
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