Legal Opinion
Baez-Sanchez v. Sessions
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 6, 2017No. 16-3784PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
This proceeding begins where L.D.G. v. Holder, 744 F.3d 1022 (7th Cir. 2014), ends. We held in LDG that the Attorney General has authority under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(3)(A)(ii) to waive an alien’s inadmissibility—and thus to halt removal temporarily—while the alien requests a U visa from the Department of Homeland Security. After Jorge Baez-Sanchez requested that relief from an immigration judge, however, the Board of Immigration Appeals held that IJs lack authority to grant such requests.
LDG addressed the question whether the Attorney General has the authority to…
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