Anin v. Reno

Alexis Anin petitions for review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying his motion to reopen his deportation order. Anin argues that the BIA’s decision constituted an abuse of discretion because he lacked proper notice of his deportation proceedings, his lack of notice violated due process, his lawyer’s ineffective assistance of counsel amounted to an exceptional circumstance, and he possessed a viable political asylum claim that the BIA ignored. We hold that the BIA did not abuse its discretion in refusing to reopen Anin’s deportation order because Anin received…