Legal Opinion
Rene Lopez Rodriguez v. Eric H. Holder Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 27, 2012No. 08-71481, 08-73353PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAEZ, Circuit Judge:
The Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA or Board) governing regulations limit its scope of review of an immigration judge’s (IJ) factual findings. Under 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(d)(3)(i), (iv), the BIA may only review findings of fact for clear error, and is prohibited from making its own factual determinations. In this petition for review, which arises in the context of allegations of drug smuggling, we consider whether the Board exceeded these limitations when it reversed the IJ’s determination that petitioner Rene Lopez-Rodriguez was admissible and concluded instead that…
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