Matter of Silva-Trevino: Going, going ….

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

On November 7, 2008, outgoing Attorney General Michael Mukasey turned immigration law on its head when he issued a decision, Matter of Silva-Trevino. Rather than go into all its details, I refer you to a blog I posted on it in January 2011 and an article I co-authored.  In January I optimistically forecasted that Matter of Silva-Trevino would not survive Ninth Circuit scrutiny. I wrote: This case (Rosas Castaneda v. Holder)  also may be foreshadow the demise of another precedent…