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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Administrative Law, Immigration Law |
| Title: | Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales |
| Date: | 06/22/06 |
| Case Number: | 04–1376 |
| Summary: | In the context of reinstatement of orders of removal on illegal entrants, Immigration and Nationality Act section 241(a)(5) applies to those who reentered the U.S. before the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act's (IIRIRA) effective date and does not retroactively affect any right of, or impose any burden on, the violator of the INA before the Court. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Immigration Law, Per Curiam |
| Title: | Gonzales v. Thomas |
| Date: | 04/17/06 |
| Case Number: | 05–552 |
| Summary: | A judgment in an asylum case holding that a particular family fell within the scope of the statutory term "particular social group" and was persecuted on that basis is vacated where the "ordinary 'remand' rule" should have been applied since an agency had not yet considered whether the family presented the kind of "kinship ties" that constitute a "particular social group." |