By: Derek Hawkins//August 30, 2016//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Jose Antonio Cisneros v. Loretta E. Lynch
Case No.: 15-3238
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and MANION and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Waiver of Inadmissibility
Board of immigration overturn of waiver of inadmissibility was a discretionary decision. As a result, the court lacked jurisdiction as its jurisdiction extends only to legal or constitutional issues.
“We see nothing in the statute that compels the Attorney General to adopt one or the other of these methodologies. Be‐ cause she created the regulation to guide her own discretion, she retains the authority to decide how to interpret the term “violent or dangerous” crime, as long as the interpretation is permissible under the INA. Chevron, 467 U.S. at 843; see also Makir‐Marwil, 681 F.3d at 1235 (“all Jean requires is an adequate consideration of the nature of the refugee’s crime”).”
Petition for review denied