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ALAELUA v. I.N.S.

No. 93-70868.

45 F.3d 1379 (1995)

Lipoi ALAELUA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 30, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Hoshijo, Honolulu, HI, for petitioner.

Robert Kendall, Jr., Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before: BROWNING, TROTT and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

The only issue in this appeal is how we review a Board of Immigration Appeals affirmance which adopts the decision of the immigration judge, instead of articulating the Board's reasons in its own words.

FACTS

Alaelua came to the United States from Western Samoa in 1978, when he was 21. He was admitted as a lawful permanent resident. In 1987, he was convicted of selling heroin five times on five separate dates during May...

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