Court Opinion

ID: 9497697
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:57:44.184028+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:58:21.548327
License: Public Domain

BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
This case is but one example of the harsh effects and unintended consequences current immigration laws visit upon immigrant families. Punishing Martin Moran for endeavoring to bring his family together could hardly be more antithetical to Congress’s stated goal of promoting family unification in immigration law. To say that Moran’s efforts to be with his son and his son’s mother reflect a lack of “good moral character” grossly distorts the meaning of that term, and it is with a heavy heart that I apply this statutory classification today. That the denial of Moran’s petition is required by the law does not make this result — or this law— just.