Michaelle Lapaix v. U.S. Attorney General

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• noting that under In re N-A-M-, the Attorney General “retains discretion to determine on a case-by-case basis whether the offense constituted a particularly serious crime”
• explaining that “[p]articularly seri- ous crimes render aliens ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal” because “[c]onviction of a particularly serious crime nec- essarily renders one a danger to the community”
• stating to establish a due process violation, a non-citizen must show she was deprived of lib- erty without due process and the asserted errors caused her sub- stantial prejudice
• “The [Board] has discretion to summarily dismiss claims where the record clearly indicates that the applicant has waived her right to appeal.”
• “Gen- erally, when an appellant fails to offer argument on an issue, that issue is deemed abandoned.”
• “That discretion may be delegated to other administrative bodies, including IJ’s.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).