Board of Immigration Appeals· 7/1/2018

A-C-M

Citations

27 I. & N. Dec. 303

Syllabus

(1) An alien provides \material support\ to a terrorist organization if the act has a logical and reasonably foreseeable tendency to promote, sustain, or maintain the organization, even if only to a de minimis degree. (2) The respondent afforded material support to the guerillas in El Salvador in 1990 because the forced labor she provided in the form of cooking, cleaning, and washing their clothes aided them in continuing their mission of armed and violent opposition to the Salvadoran Government.

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interpreting the phrase “material support” as it relates to terrorist activity disqualifying admission
“In sum, ‘material support’ is a term of art” that refers to “aid of a material and normally tangible nature, and it is not quantitative.” (footnote omitted)
no exception to § 1182(a) for de minimis support provided to a terrorist organization
“We hold that no such quantitative limitation exists 5 in the [material-support] bar.”
“no such quantitative limitation exists.”

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