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Amended Opinion: Figueroa Ochoa v. Garland
Ninth Circuit court lacked jurisdiction to hear petitioner's appeal from Board of Immigration's decision to denying his request to cancel removal or adjust his immigration status. 		Immigration 9th Feb. 7, 2024
U.S. v. Gonzalez-Godinez
Government was not required to provide further clarification to non-citizen regarding his Miranda and administrative rights where they were not contradictory or confusing. 		Immigration 9th Jan. 4, 2024
Alcarez-Rodriguez v. Garland
Board of Immigration Appeals failure to properly evaluate asylum applicant's request to reopen constituted abuse of discretion when application provided documented reasons for missing deadline. 		Immigration 9th Dec. 29, 2023
Rodriguez-Hernandez v. Garland
Petitioner was not eligible for cancellation of removal because Revised Code of Washington Section 9A.46.020 for misdemeanor harassment was a categorical crime of violence. 		Immigration 9th Dec. 28, 2023
Babaria v. Blinken
Immigrants seeking injunctive relief could not demonstrate regulation requiring available visas before approving employment-based adjustment applications violated congressional intent. 		Immigration 9th Dec. 4, 2023
Tellez-Ramirez v. Garland
Permanent resident's removal was correct as his drug conviction under Idaho law was an aggravated felony because it matched relevant federal crime. 		Immigration 9th Nov. 30, 2023
Zuniga De La Cruz v. Garland
Exclusionary rule does not apply to civil immigration proceedings, so statements admitting illegal presence in the United States were admissible absent any evidence of coercion. 		Immigration 9th Nov. 20, 2023
Hermosillo v. Garland
Noncitizen was entitled to merits hearting because his credible testimony regarding cartel violence against relatives was sufficient for preliminary showing that he faced reasonable possibility of torture if removed. 		Immigration 9th Sep. 15, 2023
Rudnitskyy v. Garland
Lawful permanent resident convicted of aggravated felony after residing in the United States for seven years was ineligible for relief because he committed the offense before the seven year period ended. 		Immigration 9th Sep. 15, 2023
Alonso-Juarez v. Garland
A petitioner must file a petition for review of an immigration judge's determination of reasonable fear of persecution or torture thirty days after the reasonable fear proceeding. 		Immigration 9th Sep. 11, 2023
U.S. v. Portillo-Gonzalez
Defendant's challenge to removal order was not challengeable because he failed to exhaust administrative remedies and was not deprived of judicial review. 		Immigration 9th Sep. 1, 2023
Flores-Vasquez v. Garland
Under the categorical approach, conviction under Oregon menacing statute was not a crime involving moral turpitude because conviction did not require the infliction of actual harm on another. 		Immigration 9th Sep. 1, 2023
Amended Opinion: Duenas v. Garland
The appointment and removal processes for Immigration Judges and BIA members comport with Article II of the Constitution, because they are inferior officers, rather than principal officers. 		Immigration 9th Aug. 25, 2023
Reyes-Corado v. Garland
Changed circumstances were sufficient to reopen removal proceedings where the petitioner's fear of persecution asserted in the original proceedings had not changed but had become more serious and real. 		Immigration 9th Aug. 14, 2023
Fonseca-Fonseca v. Garland
Denial of motion to reopen based on the petitioner's failure to establish prima facie eligibility for cancellation of removal required remand where the wrong standard of proof was applied. 		Immigration 9th Aug. 9, 2023
Duenas v. Garland
The appointment and removal processes for Immigration Judges and BIA members comport with Article II of the Constitution, because they are inferior officers, rather than principal officers. 		Immigration 9th Jul. 28, 2023
Park v. Garland
Permanent resident's petition was denied because he did not overcome the presumption that drug-trafficking crimes are serious offenses. 		Immigration 9th Jun. 30, 2023
Ramirez Munoz v. Garland
Petitioner's misrepresentations about citizenship to police for the purpose of avoiding removal proceedings did not render him inadmissible and therefore ineligible for adjustment of immigration status. 		Immigration 9th Jun. 27, 2023
U.S v. Hansen
Immigration statute prohibiting encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration was not unconstitutionally overbroad because those terms had well-established legal meanings, so it did not prohibit a substantial amount of protected speech. 		Immigration USSC Jun. 26, 2023
Pugin v. Garland
Noncitizens' criminal offenses made them eligible for removal because they were aggravated felonies related to the obstruction of justice even though there was no associated pending investigation or proceeding. 		Immigration USSC Jun. 23, 2023
Figueroa Ochoa v. Garland
Ninth Circuit court lacked jurisdiction to hear petitioner's appeal from Board of Immigration's decision to denying his request to cancel removal or adjust his immigration status. 		Immigration 9th Jun. 21, 2023
Koonwaiyou v. Blinken
Amendments to Immigration and Nationality Act expanding eligibility non-citizen national status at birth applied to otherwise qualified individual who was born prior to the enactment of the amendments. 		Immigration 9th Jun. 8, 2023
Rodriguez-Zuniga v. Garland
Asylum seeker's petition properly denied when substantial evidence showed that robber's chief motivation was financial gain rather than because of petitioner's protected status. 		Immigration 9th Jun. 8, 2023
Arizmendi-Medina v. Garland
Immigration Judge denied petitioner due process by refusing continuance and deeming application abandoned despite counsel's requests to immediately file asylum application that day. 		Immigration 9th Jun. 8, 2023
Zhovtonizhko v. Garland
Board of Immigration Appeals failed to acknowledge the materiality of legislature's changes to statute, which affected whether petitioner's crimes involved "moral turpitude" and thus rendered him removable. 		Immigration 9th Jun. 8, 2023
Amended Opinion: Hernandez Avilez v. Garland
Noncitizens subject to mandatory detention under United States Code Section 1226(c) are not eligible for release on bond during the judicial phase of the proceedings. 		Immigration 9th Jun. 7, 2023
Amended Opinion: Umana-Escobar v. Garland
Application of incorrect standard of review to Immigration Judge's determination--that there was insufficient nexus between immigrant's membership in protected group and harm faced in his home country--required remand. 		Immigration 9th May 24, 2023
Santos-Zacaria v. Garland
The exhaustion requirement for a noncitizen seeking review of a removal order is not jurisdictional. 		Immigration USSC May 12, 2023
Mejia Vega v. USCIS
Court was jurisdictionally barred from reviewing Attorney General's discretionary decision to deny noncitizen's request for a waiver of inadmissibility. 		Immigration 9th Apr. 17, 2023
Ayanian v. Garland
Using the Ninth Circuit's mediation program to hold proceedings in abeyance while awaiting discretionary relief that may never come rather than resolve a dispute would be an abuse of process. 		Immigration 9th Apr. 5, 2023
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