Evidence that members of a group conducted election-related violence and showed “tacit support for radical Islam” are not enough to establish that the group is a low-level terrorist organization whose members must be deported, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the court determined that, in order to establish that an organization is a Tier III terrorist group, whose members are barred from seeking relief in this country, there must be evidence that the group’s leaders authorized the alleged terrorist activities.
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