Elien v. John Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that recognizing aliens who commit crimes in the United States as a protected social “unquestionably would create a perverse incentive for [aliens] ... to commit crimes, thereby immunizing themselves from deportation”
• noting that the term “particular social group” is not free from ambiguity
• deferring to the BIA’s determination that aliens who commit crimes in the United States are not a protected social group
• deferring to our interpretation of the term “social group”
• discussing implementation of the Convention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).