Legal Opinion
Mendez-Castro v. Mukasey
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 12, 2009No. 06-70362PublishedCited by 184 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether we have jurisdiction to review the Board of Immigration Appeals’ application of its own precedent in determining whether the removal of two aliens would cause their children to suffer “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship.”
I
Elfido Mendez-Castro and Rosa Imelda Mendez (“the petitioners”) are natives and citizens of Mexico who entered the United States without inspection in October 1985 and March 1987, respectively. The petitioners separately were served with Notices to Appear charging them as removable under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(A)(i),…
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