Saakian v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an alien must “show at least a reasonable probability of prejudice”
• arguing that the failure of the Immigration Judge to reopen his case to argue ineffective assistance of counsel was a due process violation
• explaining that in a removal proceeding, ineffective assistance of counsel occurs when counsel’s deficiencies render the proceeding so fundamentally unfair that the alien is unable reasonably to present his case and is prejudiced as a result
• stating that the statutory right to counsel is “ ‘an integral part of the procedural due process to which the alien is entitled’ ” (quoting Batanic v. INS, 12 F.3d 662, 667 (7th Cir. 1993))
• “[The right to counsel] is an integral part of the procedural due process to which an alien is entitled.”
• “[The right to counsel] is an integral part of the procedural due process to which an alien is entitled.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).