United States First Circuit

Petition for review from a decision ordering petitioners excluded and deported is denied where the Board of Immigration Appeals did not err in refusing to allow administrative closure of exclusion proceedings under the ABC Agreement, in determining that petitioners were excludable as charged, nor in deeming asylum applications abandoned.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/21/2006
• Published 02/21/2006

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, BOWMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roberto Gonzalez, with whom Audette, Bazar, Berren & Gonzalez, Inc. was on brief, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer L. Lightbody, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, with whom Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Mark C. Walters, Assistant Director, were on brief, for respondent.