United States Fifth Circuit

Where the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) reverses an immigration judge's (IJ) grant of discretionary relief and gives effect to the IJ's original order of removability, the BIA has merely eliminated "impediments to removal" and effected the original removal order, and thus, such disposition does not offend the scope of the powers granted to the BIA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2006
• Published 05/23/2006

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, JOLLY and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lawrence Erik Rushton (argued), Bellaire, TX, for Petitioner-Appellee., Alison Ruth Drucker (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Imm. Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondents-Appellants.