United States Third Circuit

For purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), criminal deportees are not recognized as a social group. A petition for review of a BIA's order of removal of petitioner to Haiti is denied over challenges to the sufficiency of the BIA's findings, a claim that the BIA failed to analyze separately her claims under the INA and the CAT, and that the BIA failed to consider her status as a criminal deportee for purposes of a claim under the INA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/13/2006
• Decided 07/26/2006
• Published 07/26/2006

Judges

• Before FISHER, GREENBERG, and LOURIE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ruchi Thaker, Matthew L. Guadagno (argued), Jules E. Coven, Kerry W. Bretz, Bretz and Coven, New York, NY, Attorneys for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Richard M. Evans, Assistant Director, David E. Dauenheimer, Carl H. McIntyre, Jr. (argued), Senior Litigation Counsel, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Attorneys for Respondent.