Tunis v. Gonzales, 447 F.3d 547 (7th Cir. May 15, 2006) (Wisconsin conviction of two counts of selling less than a gram of cocaine, with two years suspended sentence, with seven months actual custody ordered, constituted aggravated felony drug trafficking convictions, under INA 101(a)(43)(B), 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(43)(B), and thus particularly serious crimes under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B)(ii), for purposes of barring political asylum and withholding of removal, because respondent who was the seller in two drug transactions could not be a peripheral figure in the transactions, as required to be eligible for a discretionary finding that her offense was not a particularly serious crime), interpreting Matter of YL, 23 I. & N. Dec. 270, 276-277 (BIA 2002).

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