Enriquez-Gutierrez v. Holder

How courts have described this case

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• holding that this court can affirm despite a BIA error where there is not a realistic possibility that, absent the error, the BIA would have reached a different conclusion
• reasoning that a court “may usually only affirm the BIA on the basis of its stated rationale”
• explaining that this court “may usually only affirm the BIA on the basis of its stated rationale for ordering an alien removed from the United States”
• finding that the BIA could take administrative notice of transcripts, even if they first entered the record on appeal before the BIA and were not a part of the formal record
• “[A court] may usually only affirm the BIA on the basis of its stated rationale . . . .”
• “Even if there is a reversible error in the BIA’s analysis, affirmance may be warranted ‘where there is no realistic possibility that, absent the errors, the BIA would have reached a different conclusion.’” (alteration omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).