In re Bridgeforth

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• holding that Fedorenko's negation of voluntariness with respect to the DPA’s persecutor bar does not command the same result with respect to the analogous INA provision
• holding that Fedorenko’s rule that voluntariness is irrelevant to culpability with respect to the DPA’s persecutor bar need not be applied to the analogous INA persecutor bar
• holding that Fedorenko’s negation of voluntariness with respect to the DPA’s persecutor bar does not command the same result with respect to the analogous INA provision
• concluding that the BIA did not “exercise[] its Chevron discretion to interpret the statute in question” when the. BIA adopted a rule it believed was compelled by Supreme Court precedent interpreting a similar statute
• noting that the judiciary is not well-suited to assume primary responsibility for assessing important diplomatic factors
• noting that the Board’s interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act generally must receive deference

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