Legal Opinion
Ran Choeum v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 5, 1997No. 96-1446, 97-1552PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
The difficulty of wending through this country’s immigration laws' — -for the immigrants involved, for the courts, and even for the federal agencies charged with enforcing the laws — is illustrated by this case. For the courts, what is involved is properly ascertaining congressional intent in light of constitutional guarantees in decision of cases. For this Cambodian immigrant, Ran Choeum, what is involved is whether she will .be deported, possibly back to that war-torn land she left when she was a child. She petitions for review of two decisions of the Board of…
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- Reno v. FloresSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Kwong Hai Chew v. ColdingSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Frisby v. SchultzSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
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