Court Opinion

ID: 9492647
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:45:56.373787+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:55:24.330241
License: Public Domain

WIGGINS, Circuit Judge,
Dissenting:
I respectfully dissent.
I believe the evidence is sufficient to find that the petitioner gained unlawful admission into the United States by means of a false Canadian passport. He made false statements to our immigration officials concerning his fraudulent passport and provided an exceedingly doubtful story concerning a good Samaritan who provided him the money to purchase an airline ticket from Seoul, Korea to Los Angeles, California.
The BIA concluded that he lied, not to Nigerian officials, but to United States agents.
The majority explains the falsehoods away. I cannot.
I respectfully dissent.