Gabriel Espinoza-Gutierrez v. Richard C. Smith, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• observing that an argument contesting the validity of an agency’s own regulations will “necessarily ... fall[ ] on deaf ears” because the BIA “simply has no authority to invalidate a regulation that it is bound to follow”
• “Historically, this language [from Fleuti ] has been viewed as a border-crossing mechanism”

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