context: The principle behind the Cuevas-Gaspar imputation rule is to avoid separating children from their permanent resident parents with whom they have resided for a significant period of time in the United States.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 16 F.3d 1021, 1025
citation_a.parenthetical: holding, in the primary case on which Cuevas-Gaspar relied, imputation of a parent's residency status to a child may be justified where deportation would "sever[] the bonds between parents and their children who had resided legally in the United States for the better part of their lives...."
citation_a.sentence: See Cuevas-Gaspar, 430 F.3d at 1024 (“[W]e are instructed ... that our immigration statutes and regulations are replete with provisions ‘giving a high priority to the relation between permanent resident parents and their children.’ ”); see also Lepe-Guitron v. INS, 16 F.3d 1021, 1025 (9th Cir.1994) (holding, in the primary case on which Cuevas-Gaspar relied, imputation of a parent’s residency status to a child may be justified where deportation would “sever[] the bonds between parents and their children who had resided legally in the United States for the better part of their lives....”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 430 F.3d 1024, 1024
citation_b.parenthetical: "[W]e are instructed ... that our immigration statutes and regulations are replete with provisions 'giving a high priority to the relation between permanent resident parents and their children.' "
citation_b.sentence: See Cuevas-Gaspar, 430 F.3d at 1024 (“[W]e are instructed ... that our immigration statutes and regulations are replete with provisions ‘giving a high priority to the relation between permanent resident parents and their children.’ ”); see also Lepe-Guitron v. INS, 16 F.3d 1021, 1025 (9th Cir.1994) (holding, in the primary case on which Cuevas-Gaspar relied, imputation of a parent’s residency status to a child may be justified where deportation would “sever[] the bonds between parents and their children who had resided legally in the United States for the better part of their lives....”).