People v. Naim

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an alien parent “may not establish a derivative claim for asylum by pointing to potential hardship to the alien’s United States citizen child in the event of the alien’s deportation”
• recognizing the difficult choice faced by petitioner, but explaining that “Congress has foreseen such difficult choices, but has opted to leave the choice with the illegal immigrant, not the courts”
• stating that because the applicant already underwent FGM, there was no chance that she would be personally tortured again by the procedure when sent back to her native country
• holding that \[A]n alien parent who has no legal standing to remain in the United States may not establish a derivative claim for asylum by pointing to potential hardship to the alien’s United States citizen child in the event of the alien’s deportation.\
• rejecting stemming from an arranged marriage. See In re Kasinga, 21 mother’s claim for avoiding deportation based on the threat of I. & N. Dec. 357 (BIA 1996). FGM to her daughters as lacking in statutory or regulatory authority
• “The law is clear that citizen family members of illegal aliens have no cognizable interest in preventing an alien’s exclusion and deportation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).