Opinion · Board of Immigration Appeals
MEZA
20 I. & N. Dec. 257
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Board of Immigration Appeals
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1991-07-01
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- comparing the specific category of trafficking any controlled substance, not the mere words “aggravated felony”
- "[A] section 212(c) waiver is available in deportation proceedings only to those aliens who have been found deportable under a ground of deportability for which there is a comparable ground of excludability."
- “[A] section 212(e) waiver is available in deportation proceedings only to those aliens who have been found deportable under a ground of deportability for which there is a comparable ground of excluda-bility.”
- “a section 212(c) waiver is available in deportation proceedings only to those aliens who have been found deportable under a ground of deportability for which there is a comparable ground of excluda-bility”
- petitioner found eligible to apply for § 212(c) relief because his crime, trafficking in a controlled substance, was sufficiently analogous to a section 212(a) ground of excludability, namely violation of laws related to a controlled substance
- petitioner found eligible to apply for § 212(c) relief 5 because his crime, trafficking in a controlled substance, was sufficiently analogous to a section 212(a) ground of excludability, namely violation of laws related to a controlled substance
Citator
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