Juarez v. I.N.S., 83-3251
| Decision Date | 16 April 1984 |
| Docket Number | No. 83-3251,83-3251 |
| Citation | 732 F.2d 58 |
| Parties | Manuel JUAREZ, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Sixth Circuit |
Timothy M. Manley (argued), Akron, Ohio, for petitioner.
Robert Kendall, Jr. (argued), Office of Immigration Litigation, Criminal Div., Thomas W. Hussey, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Before EDWARDS and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges, and UNTHANK, District Judge. *
The petitioner Manuel Juarez-Fernandez appeals from an order of deportation. We find that we have no jurisdiction to hear this appeal because Juarez has not yet exhausted his administrative remedies.
Juarez, a Mexican citizen, entered the United States in 1975 without presenting himself for inspection. On April 12, 1983, agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) apprehended Juarez and issued him an Order to Show Cause and Notice of Hearing, charging that he was subject to deportation. On the reverse side of the order, Juarez signed a request for an immediate hearing, waiving any right to more extended notice.
The deportation hearing for Juarez and another alien apprehended with him took place the following morning. Juarez was not represented by counsel, did not contest any allegations made by the INS, and conceded his deportability. The INS provided an interpreter, and the hearing was initially conducted in Spanish; the immigration judge switched to English for part of his examination of Juarez, however. At the conclusion of the hearing, the judge found Juarez deportable and ordered him deported to Mexico. Juarez at the hearing waived his right to appeal this decision.
Later in the same day, Juarez through counsel submitted a motion to reopen the deportation proceedings and an application for a stay of the deportation. The next morning, April 14, before Juarez's attorney received a response to these requests, INS officers placed Juarez on an airplane bound for Mexico. Juarez's attorney then filed a Petition for Review of Deportation Order in this Court of Appeals, which under 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1105a(a)(3), stayed the deportation. (Juarez was taken off the plane in Chicago.) Also on April 14, the immigration judge issued a decision denying both of Juarez's requests. Juarez subsequently appealed the decision of the judge; this appeal is now pending before the Board of Immigration Appeals.
An alien may appeal his deportation order only after exhausting his administrative remedies. The Immigration and Nationality Act states:
An order of deportation or of exclusion shall not be reviewed by any court if the alien has not exhausted the administrative remedies available to him as of right under the immigration laws and regulations or if he has departed from the United States after the issuance of the order.
8 U.S.C. Sec. 1105a(c).
Juarez argues that this appeal is not barred by this provision since when the petition for review was filed in this Court, he had exhausted all his available administrative remedies. Because his motions to reopen the deportation proceedings and to stay the deportation order had not yet been denied by the immigration judge, Juarez had no jurisdictional basis to move the Board of Immigration Appeals to set aside his waiver of appeal. Juarez's waiver at the hearing of his right to appeal made the immigration judge's decision ordering his deportation a final order, which could be executed immediately. 8 C.F.R. Sec. 243.1 (1983). Juarez further argues that he could not simply wait for the judge to grant or deny his motions to reopen the proceedings and to stay the deportation, and then proceed with his administrative appeal. The actual process of deportation had already begun; Juarez contends that he was forced to file this appeal in this Court to stay the deportation "since all possible rights and remedies would have been extinguished" upon his return to Mexico (Reply Brief at 6).
We disagree with this interpretation of the law. It is true that the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act quoted above states that a court may not review a deportation order if the alien "has departed from the United States after the issuance of the order." However, "departure" in this context has been...
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