Legal Opinion
DeSousa v. Reno
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 25, 1999No. 99-1115PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*178OPINION OF THE COURT
GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Fernando Jorge DeSousa, seeking to avoid deportation for crimes he committed while a legal resident of the United States, applied for a discretionary waiver of inadmissibility under former 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c). The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) ruled that as a deportable, rather than an excludable, alien, DeSousa was not eligible for a discretionary waiver. DeSousa then filed a petition for habeas corpus in the district court against the Attorney General and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”), arguing that former…
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