Legal Opinion
Porfirio Romero-Morales v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 27, 1994No. 1214, Docket 93-4205PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:
Porfirio Romero-Morales petitions for review of an August 1993 decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), affirming the denial of Romero’s motion to reopen his deportation proceeding. That motion had been brought pursuant to section 242B of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the Act), codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1252b. The crux of the motion was that an order of deportation had been improperly entered against Romero in absentia, pursuant to subsection (c)(1) of section 242B. The basis of the BIA’s ruling was that Romero had not shown “exceptional circumstances”…
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