Apolinar Hernandez-Garza v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that the government’s efforts to produce adverse witnesses were insufficient where it simply sent a letter to one of the witnesses
• holding that the government’s efforts to produce adverse witnesses were insufficient where it simply sent a let- ter to one of the witnesses
• holding that immigration judge denied alien fair deportation proceeding by denying cross-examination to test language fluency of officers who transcribed English translation of alien’s Spanish-language statements
• INS testimony that it sent affiant residing abroad a letter requesting presence at hearing, without production of a copy of the letter, insufficient evidence of effort to provide cross-examination opportunity
• INS testimony that it sent affiant residing abroad a letter requesting presence at hearing, without production of a copy of the letter, insufficient evidence of effort to provide cross-examination opportunity
• immigration judge erred by refusing to allow party to test INS agent's fluency in Spanish, and by dismissing party's observation \that a qualified the Spanish language. That's vouching in the highest order. Anything else? (Emphasis added.) 12 interpreter was present\

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