Lipoi Alaelua v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1995-01-30

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KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge: The only issue in this appeal is how we review a Board of Immigration Appeals affir-mance which adopts the decision of the immigration judge, instead of articulating the Board’s reasons in its own words. FACTS Alaelua came to the United States from Western Samoa in 1978, when he was 21. He was admitt…

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