Wilkinson v. Garland

Decided March 19, 2024. Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 22-666 · 601 U.S. 209 · Cited 253 times

The Immigration Judge’s discretionary decision that Mr. Wilkinson failed to satisfy 8 U. S. C. §1229b(b)(1)(D)’s “exceptional and extremely unusual” hardship standard for determining eligibility for cancellation of removal is a mixed question of law and fact, reviewable under §1252(a)(2)(D)’s jurisdiction restoring exception for “questions of law”; the Third Circuit’s holding that the IJ’s decision was unreviewable under §1252(a)(2)(B)(i) was in error.

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