Luis A. Higuit v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that alien’s subjective intent is irrelevant and that persecutor bar applies if the objective effect of alien’s actions is to further persecution, even if in some “small measure”
• finding that the court lacked jurisdiction to review the Immigration Judge’s denial of an application for adjustment of status
• finding that “there can be no dispute over Higuit’s personal culpability in this case”
• dismissing petition for review of an IJ’s “adjustment of status determination” because it “was an equitable determination based on factual findings rather than a question of law”
• finding no jurisdiction to review Board’s discretionary denial of adjustment of status where petitioner failed to raise constitutional claim or question of law
• “We are not free to convert every immigration case into a question of law, and thereby undermine Congress’s decision to grant limited jurisdiction over matters committed in the first instance to the sound discretion of the Executive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).