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Jeffrey N. Brauwerman A former United States Immigration Judge, has served as Regional Counsel for the Southern region of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and Chief Legal Officer for its Miami District office.
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Case Summaries
Immigration Law
[05/08]
Mendez-Mendez v. Mukasey
Petition for review of a dismissal of Mexican native's appeal from an IJ's order of removal is denied where: 1) because the statutory maximum term of imprisonment for petitioner's bribery offense was fifteen years, the petty offense exception to inadmissibility does not apply; and 2) the IJ did not violate his due process right to a full and fair hearing by unilaterally advancing the hearing date. The plain language of 8 U.S.C. section 1182(a)(2)(A)(ii)(II) indicates that the "maximum penalty possible" refers to the statutory maximum, not the maximum guideline sentence to which an alien was exposed.
[05/08]
Isse v. Mukasey
Petition for review of a BIA order denying petitioner's motion to reconsider asylum-related relief is denied over claims that the BIA: 1) abused its discretion by ignoring "the relevant fact" that fraudulent birth certificates seeped into almost every part of the IJ's adverse credibility finding; and 2) erred in determining that his wife's and sister's rapes were "material inconsistencies" because those rapes did not form the crux of his original claim for asylum.
[05/08]
Soumare v. Mukasey
Petition for review of a final order of removal is denied where: 1) the IJ properly found that petitioner's testimony was not credible to support his claim for asylum; and 2) the petitioner failed to corroborate his story with any evidence.
[05/08]
Huang v. Mukasey
Petition for review of an order of removal is denied where: 1) petitioners' asylum applications were untimely filed; 2) the court cannot consider the asylum claim since petitioners failed to exhaust their administrative remedies; and 3) petitioners did not present credible evidence as to their claim under the Convection Against Torture.
[05/08]
Dedji v. Mukasey
An IJ has broad discretion, in the management of his docket, to enforce deadlines established by local rules, and to deviate from the local rules where: 1) petitioner has demonstrated good cause for the delay; and 2) substantial prejudice would likely result from the enforcement of the deadline. Further, abuse of discretion is the proper standard to apply in reviewing an IJ's decision to establish and enforce filing deadlines for submission of documents.
[05/06]
Silaya v. Mukasey
Petition for review of a denial of an application for asylum and related relief brought by a native of the Philippines is granted with respect to the asylum claim where: 1) the rape and physical abuse inflicted on petitioner supported a finding of past persecution under 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a)(42)(A); and 2) the record compelled a finding that petitioner was subjected to past persecution on account of imputed political opinion.
[05/06]
Zoarab v. Mukasey
Petition for review of a denial of asylum and related relief is denied where there was little in the record to suggest that petitioner's comments about a soured business deal with a prince amounted to political speech, for purposes of a claim that he was entitled to asylum in light of the circumstances of the monarchical government in the United Arab Emirates, where any expression against the integrity of a royal family member is said to constitute political expression.
[05/06]
U.S. v. Mir
Convictions for immigration fraud are affirmed over defendant's principal claim that that conversations two witnesses initiated with him at the government's behest violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel because those conversations occurred after defendant had been indicted on the immigration fraud counts.
[05/05]
Martinez-Merino v. Mukasey
Petition for review of an order reinstating petitioner's removal from the country is denied as petitioner did not allege the deprivation of any constitutional or statutory right to be free from the restraint imposed by the reinstatement order. (Substituted opinion)
[05/05]
Fakhry v. Mukasey
Petition for review of a denial of am application for asylum based on petitioner's membership in a Senegalese political organization, as well as related relief, is granted in part and remanded as to the asylum claim where the IJ erred in finding that: 1) petitioner failed to qualify for the "changed circumstances" exception to the one-year bar on filing asylum claims; and, alternatively, 2) petitioner could reasonably relocate to another part of the country.
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