Carlos Alberto Villanueva-Franco v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the BIA is required “to provide more than mere conclusory statements” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• noting that the BIA is required “to provide more than mere conclusory statements” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• rejecting an argument that the BIA “im-permissibly considered convictions or acts beyond the five-year period” because the period “is necessary but not sufficient for a finding of good moral character” (quoting Hibbert v. INS, 554 F.2d 17, 20 n. 2 (2d Cir. 1977)
• BIA's recognition generally of favorable facts without referring specifically to each fact was not an abuse of discretion
• BIA's recognition generally of favorable facts without referring specifically to each fact was not an abuse of discretion
• “[A]ll that is necessary is a decision that sets out terms sufficient to enable us as a reviewing court to see that the Board has heard, considered, and decided.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).