IN THE LATEST APPELLATE slap at immigration courts, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an immigration appeals board decision to deport a Chinese woman with two American children who claimed she would be persecuted because of China’s one-child policy.

The unanimous per curiam opinion last week in Yaner Li v. U.S. Attorney General called the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision an “abuse of discretion.” The 11th Circuit said the board’s ruling was “nonsensical, incomprehensible, arbitrary and capricious.”

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