The Board of Immigration Appeals has approved of the use of impeachment evidence in a removal proceeding, finding “an Immigration Judge may rely on impeachment evidence as part of a credibility determination where the evidence is probative and its admission is not fundamentally unfair, and the witness is given an opportunity to respond to that evidence during the proceedings.”

The full text of Matter of E-F-N- can be found here:

https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1516746/download

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