Why did the Ninth Circuit remand Madrigal-Barcenas v. Lynch?

Sunday, August 16th, 2015

On August 10, 2015, the Ninth Circuit remanded Madrigal-Barcenas v. Lynch, which was at the Supreme Court along with Mellouli v. Lynch. Mellouli v. Lynch, is the Supreme Court case decided on June 1, 2015, that held that a Kansas conviction for possession of drug paraphernalia, in the Mellouli case, a sock in which Mr. Mellouli stored four Adderall pills, was not categorically a removable offense as a controlled substance violation, INA § 237(a)(2)(B)(I).  The Kansas statute,  Kan. Stat. Ann….

New test in missing element cases is not changing the results – so far.

Sunday, November 4th, 2012

In immigration law, there are certain crimes an alien can be convicted of that can lead to removal. The immigration statutes, found in the Immigration and Nationality Act, do not list the state crimes and usually not the federal crimes that lead to removal. Rather, the Immigration and Nationality Act names certain types of crimes – such as a “crime of moral turpitude,” or a “theft offense,” or a “crime of violence,” or “sexual abuse of a minor,” or “domestic…