Wagner, who was in Hawaii, conducted the proceedings through videoconference.
He granted the voluntary departure of Mark Del Barrio, while Wayne Weilbacher Jack was ordered removed for being an alien convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude.
The CNMI Superior Court sentenced Jack in 1994 to five years imprisonment, all suspended.
Del Barrio, 32, was ordered to produce a plane ticket within five days, and he must to leave the commonwealth before Jan. 23, 2012. Otherwise his voluntary departure with automatically convert into an order of removal, the court ordered.
Wagner continued the removal proceedings for a family of three — Ping Zhang, mother; Xiangdong Guo, father; and Yue Guo, son — who told the court they were victims of religious persecution in China.
The proceedings for Khalid Nawaz and his children Ali Nawaz, Omar Nawaz, and Hassan Nawaz were rescheduled because their lawyer was not available.
Elpidio Macaraeg, who has been under the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was directed by the court to appear for his detention hearing next month.
The court hearings for the remaining respondents — Bohu Li, Xiu Li Sun, Baltazar De Leon, Huaming Zhang, Bo Xin Li — were also continued.
Some respondents appeared with their lawyers, while the rest represented themselves.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security counsel Patricia Beattie represented the federal government.
Philippine Consulate General legal officer Dyan Kristine B. Miranda was also in immigration court.
She told Variety she has been in contact with Filipinos undergoing removal proceedings, or those who are currently under U.S. ICE custody: Macaraeg, Celia Dela Cruz, Marlon Hernandez, and Crisanto Valdez, who was convicted of rape in 2002.
As of Oct. 19, 2011, 111 individuals had been either removed or had voluntarily departed the commonwealth since Nov. 29, 2009, according to the Executive Office for Immigration Review-Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice.
