· 8/31/2016
Escobar-Mazariegos v. State
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that the IJ had found that Kaur was “a convincing witness” with a “credible demeanor” and whose “testimony was detailed, consistent and plausible”
- noting that the BIA “also made no adverse credibility finding”
- noting the formal differences between a “petition for review” and an “appeal”
- “[W]e are required to treat a petitioner’s testimony as credible when the agency does not make an adverse credibility finding . . . .”
- “We think it not too much to ask of IJs and the BIA that they make an explicit adverse credibility finding”
- “The BIA acknowledged that the IJ did not make an adverse credibility finding and also did not make one itself.”
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