Bagues-Valles v. I.N.S.
| Decision Date | 02 December 1985 |
| Docket Number | BAGUES-VALLES and M,No. 84-7446,84-7446 |
| Citation | 779 F.2d 483 |
| Parties | Alfredoicaela Villa de Bagues, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit |
Edward S. Nissman, Nissman & Rogen, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioners.
Fumiko Hachiya Wasserman, Asst. U.S. Atty. (on brief), Lawrence W. Chamblee, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent.
Petition for Review of a Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Before WALLACE, CANBY, and BEEZER, Circuit Judges.
Alfredo Bagues-Valles and Micaela Villa de Bagues (the Bagueses), husband and wife, seek review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming an immigration judge's denial of their applications for suspension of deportation. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1105a(a), and we deny the petition.
The Bagueses are natives and citizens of Mexico. The husband first entered the United States in March 1971; his wife first entered in July 1972. Both entries were illegal and both returned to Mexico in June 1975 after being found deportable and allowed to depart voluntarily. They illegally re-entered the United States in July 1975.
In August 1977, the Bagueses each received a "Silva notice" from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). In Silva v. Levi, No. 76-C-4268 (N.D.Ill. Mar. 22, 1977), the INS was temporarily enjoined and subsequently permanently enjoined from deporting certain Western Hemisphere aliens because of an erroneous allocation of visas. The "Silva notice" informed the Bagueses, in both English and Spanish, that, in compliance with a court order from the Northern District of Illinois, the INS would be In March 1981, the Bagueses again returned to Mexico; they illegally re-entered the United States three weeks later.
After the Silva injunction was vacated on November 1, 1981, the INS proceeded with deportation actions against the Bagueses. The Bagueses conceded deportability but submitted applications for suspension of deportation under 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1254(a)(1). The immigration judge determined that the Bagueses were statutorily ineligible for the discretionary grant of suspension of deportation because they could not satisfy the 7-year "continuous physical presence" requirement of section 1254(a)(1). After the Supreme Court ruled in INS v. Phinpathya, 464 U.S. 183, 104 S.Ct. 584, 78 L.Ed.2d 401 (1984) (Phinpathya ), that this 7-year "continuous physical presence" requirement should be read literally, the BIA affirmed.
The Bagueses make two arguments in support of their petition for review. They do not dispute that, under Phinpathya, they have not been physically present in the United States for a continuous 7-year period. Instead, they contend that the BIA's application of Phinpathya violates due process since (1) they are recipients of Silva notices, and (2) the application was retroactive.
The Bagueses did not raise these issues in the administrative proceedings. As a general rule, issues not raised before an administrative tribunal cannot be raised on appeal from that tribunal. Reid v. Engen, 765 F.2d 1457, 1460 (9th Cir.1985) (Reid ); Tejeda-Mata v. INS, 626 F.2d 721, 726 (9th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 456 U.S. 994, 102 S.Ct. 2280, 73 L.Ed.2d 1291 (1982). The BIA, however, has no jurisdiction to adjudicate constitutional issues. See Hernandez-Rivera v. INS, 630 F.2d 1352, 1355 (9th Cir.1980). In addition, the due process claims made by the Bagueses do not concern "procedural errors correctable by the administrative tribunal." Reid, 765 F.2d at 1461. Accordingly, the requirement that administrative remedies be exhausted does not preclude the Bagueses from raising their due process claims.
The Bagueses argue that because they received Silva notices, applying Phinpathya to them violates due process. The core of this argument appears to be that the Silva notices misled the Bagueses into believing that they could depart from the United States without prejudicing their legal rights against deportation. But for the Silva notices, the argument runs, the Bagueses would have remained in the United States and would have satisfied the 7-year "continuous physical presence" requirement of section 1254(a)(1). ...
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