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

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