Legal Opinion
Ming Shi Xue v. Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. Department of Justice
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 21, 2006No. Docket 04-0374 AGPublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.
Asylum petitions of aliens seeking refuge from alleged persecution are among the hardest cases faced by our courts. They are not games. And, despite their volume, these suits are not to be disposed of improvidently, or without the care and judicial attention — by immigration judges, in the first instance, and by federal judges, on appeal — to which all litigants are entitled. 1 We should not forget, after all, what is at stake. For each time we wrongly deny a meritorious asylum application, concluding that an immigrant’s story is fabricated when, in fact, it is real,…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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3Cited by178 opinions
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