Bonhomme-Ardouin v. U.S. Atty. Gen., No. 02-12298.
Decision Date | 21 May 2002 |
Docket Number | No. 02-12298. |
Citation | 291 F.3d 1289 |
Parties | Yanick BONHOMME-ARDOUIN, Petitioner, v. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Immigration and Naturalization, Respondents. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eleventh Circuit |
Rebecca Sharpless, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Inc., Miami, FL, for Petitioner.
David V. Bernal, Office of Immigration Litigation Station, Washington, DC, Jack Wallace, Miami, FL, for Respondents.
Petition for Review of a Final Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (No. A30-690-886).
Before CARNES, BARKETT and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
Petitioner's emergency motion for stay of deportation pending resolution of petition for review is DENIED.
I concur in the order denying Bonhomme-Ardouin's emergency motion for stay of deportation because I find that she has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of her appeal, which I believe is the proper standard to apply to this motion. See, e.g., Andreiu v. Ashcroft, 253 F.3d 477, 483 (9th Cir.2001) (en banc) ( ); Sofinet v. INS, 188 F.3d 703, 706 (7th Cir.1999) ( ); Bejjani v. INS, 271 F.3d 670, 687-89 (6th Cir.2001) (same, citing Andreiu and Sofinet).
In a published order denying a motion for temporary stay, a panel of this Court recently interpreted § 1252(f)(2) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) to mean that this Court may not grant an alien's motion for a temporary stay of removal pending appeal of a final Board of Immigration Appeals' removal order unless the alien presents clear and convincing evidence that the removal order was prohibited as matter of law. See Weng v. U.S. Attorney General, 287 F.3d 1335 (11th Cir.2002).
In light of Weng, I believe this Court should consider en banc the issue of the appropriate standard of review for such a motion. In my judgment, Weng applied the wrong standard for a motion for temporary stay of deportation pending appeal.
Section 1252(f)(2) states:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no court shall enjoin the removal of any alien pursuant to a final order under this section unless the alien shows by clear and convincing evidence that the entry or execution of such an order is prohibited as a matter of law.
8 U.S.C. § 1252(f)(2). In a detailed analysis, the Ninth Circuit en banc explains that "as a matter of statutory construction, ... the term `enjoin,' in this context, is not equivalent to the term `stay,'" Andreiu at 478, and that the proper standard on a motion for temporary stay is thus the traditional: "(1) a probability of success on the merits and the possibility of irreparable injury, or (2) that serious legal questions are raised and the balance of hardships tips sharply in the petitioner's favor." Id. at 483. Andreiu persuasively rejects the result in Weng because it
would limit the courts' ability to issue stays of deportation except when the petitioner has shown by "clear and convincing evidence" that the removal order is "prohibited as a matter of law." However, the courts of appeal review the legal determinations of the BIA de novo.... In any case raising legal issues INS's interpretation would require a more...
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