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EOIR BIA Decision

The Board of Immigration Appeals has issued a decision in Matter of GARCIA-FLORES, 29 I&N Dec. 230 (BIA 2025).  

In assessing whether the respondent warranted a favorable exercise of discretion, the Immigration Judge exceeded his authority to consider the circumstances of the respondent’s conviction by making an adverse credibility finding regarding the respondent’s two child victims and in effect finding the respondent factually innocent of the crime.

                                                                                        
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