GONCALVES PONTES v. BARR

No. 19-1053.

938 F.3d 1 (2019)

Danielson Mendes GONCALVES PONTES, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

September 6, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome P. Mayer-Cantu , with whom Philip L. Torrey and Crimmigration Clinic, Harvard Law School, were on brief, for petitioner.

Kari Hong , Ninth Circuit Appellate Program, Boston College Law School, on brief for Retired Immigration Judges et al., amici curiae.

Lindsay Corliss , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Daniel E. Goldman and Brianne Whelan Cohen , Senior Litigation Counsels, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

Before Torruella, Selya, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


The petitioner, Danielson Mendes Goncalves Pontes, is a Cape Verdean national. He seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ordering him removed to his homeland and denying his motions to terminate removal proceedings. Addressing a challenge to the manner in which immigration courts obtain...

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