Legal Opinion
Raza v. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 19, 2007No. 06-1672PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
The petitioner seeks judicial review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying his motion to reopen a removal proceeding. He asserts that the BIA abused its discretion by failing to consider changed circumstances in his homeland and, instead, ruling that his motion was numerically and temporally barred. Discerning neither an abuse of discretion nor an error of any kind, we deny the petition.
The basic facts are relatively straightforward. The petitioner, Mudaser Raza, 1 is a twenty-seven-year-old Pakistani national who unlawfully entered the…
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- Samer Mansour v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
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