The United States Supreme Court reversed the Board of Immigration
Appeals Decision, Matter of Blake, 23 I.& N. Dec. 722 (2005) deciding
that the BIA had acted arbitrarily in denying relief to immigrants who
had certain criminal convictions before April 1996 and found that these
green card holders should have been permitted to seek a waiver of
deportation. In particularly strong language, the Court stated: "The
BIA's [standard for determination] is unmoored from the purposes and
concerns of the immigration laws. It allows an irrelevant comparison
between statutory provisions to govern a matter of utmost importance -
whether lawful resident adults with longstanding ties to this country
may stay here." Judulang v. Holder, Dec. 12, 2011.
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