Salustia Cortez-Felipe v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Immigration Judges and the Board lack authority to review discretionary decisions regarding when and whether to initiate removal proceedings
• stating the IIRIRA amendments apply if the proceedings commenced “on or after April 1, 1997”
• noting that on April 1, 1997, section 304(a
• rejecting equitable estoppel claim where petitioner failed to show affirmative misconduct by the INS
• “ ‘[T]he Attorney General retains discretion at the stage of deciding to initiate a deportation proceeding.’ ”
• DHS has unreviewable “discretion regarding when and whether to initiate deportation proceedings.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).