Legal Opinion

Pulisir v. Mukasey

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided April 29, 2008No. 07-1356PublishedCited by 63 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Agust H. Pulisir, is an Indonesian national. He seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) approving the denial of his request for withholding of removal. Discerning no basis for overturning that order, we deny the petition.

The facts are straightforward (although reasonable minds can draw differing inferences from them). The petitioner entered the United States in 1994 and remained illegally for some nine years before the Department of Homeland Security instituted removal proceedings. See 8 U.S.C. §…

2Cases cited31 opinions

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  2. Aguilar-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1999
  3. Glory Obianuju Ezeagwuna v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2003
  4. Laeila Nelson, Stephanie Nelson, Phil Nelson v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2000
  5. Nourain B. Niam, and Peter Blagoev, Iordanka Kissiova, and Iana Kissiova v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004

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3Cited by63 opinions

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