Legal Opinion
Cosme Alvarado-Carillo v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 8, 2001No. 2000PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge:
Cosme Alvarado-Carillo (“petitioner”), a native of Guatemala, petitions for review of a July 21, 1998 decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying his applications for asylum and for withholding of deportation (the “BIA Opinion”). 1 The BIA explicitly rejected the grounds upon which an immigration judge (“IJ”) had previously denied petitioner’s applications, but reached the same result based on its identification of a different set of testimonial and evidentiary defects. We find that the BIA Opinion erroneously ignored a substantial portion of…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Moussa Diallo v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000
- Marta Brigida Melgar De Torres v. Janet Reno, Attorney General, and the Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1999
- Franklin Henderson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Saul Navas v. Janet Reno, as Attorney General of the United States, Engin Yesil v. Janet Reno, Attorney General Doris Meissner, Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service Immigration and Naturalization Service John B.Z. Caplinger, District Director Nancy Hooks, Officer in Charge, Guillermo Mojica v. Janet Reno, as Attorney General of the United States, Saul Navas v. Janet Reno, as Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1998
- Roberto Antonio Aguilera-Cota v. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1990
- Adelaide Abankwah v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1999
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3Cited by67 opinions
- Yueqing Zhang v. Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2005
- Felix Hilario Secaida-Rosales v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
- Xiao Ji Chen v. United States Department of Justice, Attorney General Alberto R. GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2006
- Yan Chen v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, 1Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2005
- Lin Zhong v. United States Department of Justice, Attorney General GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2007
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