Torres De La Cruz v. Maurer

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the waiver rule “is wholly consistent with [the BIA’s] rule of practice” as an appellate body
• concluding that an issue is exhausted only if it’s presented to the Board or otherwise addressed by the Board
• explaining that “we have jurisdiction only over those claims that were presented to the BIA”
• describing the BIA’s waiver rule: “matters not raised before an IJ are not preserved on appeal” (collecting cases)
• declining to consider argument that alien failed to raise before [the immigration judge] and that Board subsequently deemed procedurally barred
• same waiver rules that generally apply to appellate practice apply to review of proceedings conducted by the BIA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).