ANTOINE-DORCELLI v. I.N.S.

No. 82-1344.

703 F.2d 19 (1983)

Ilocia ANTOINE-DORCELLI, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 28, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Kalisch, San Juan, P.R., on brief, for petitioner.

Lauri Steven Filppu and Daniel E. Fromstein, Attys., Crim. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on brief, for respondent.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges.


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner appeals from a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) affirming an immigration judge's denial of her application for suspension of deportation to Haiti. The Board concluded that petitioner will not suffer extreme hardship if she is deported. We think the Board exercised its discretion arbitrarily and irrationally in this case and, therefore, we reverse its decision not to suspend deportation and remand the case to the...

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