Joseph Patrick Doherty v. U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service

After seven years of proceedings before the immigration authorities, the Attorney General has decided that Doherty, who has admitted his deportability after illegal entry into the United States, may not reopen the matter and be heard on his claims for asylum as a political refugee and for withholding of deportation. The record supports the Attorney General’s exercise of his discretion in denying further hearing. It also supports his decision that “[i]t is in the [United States’] interest that [Doherty] be sent directly to the United Kingdom,” which he left as a fugitive from justice, and not…