Safe Havens

(B)  Executive Pardons.  Full and unconditional executive pardons granted by the state Governor, or other agency to which the Governor has delegated the pardon authority, or the President of the United States, are effective to eliminate convictions of crimes of moral turpitude, aggravated felonies, and high speed flight from a border checkpoint as grounds of deportation.  See § 4.26, infra.  There is an argument that a federal pardon is also effective to eliminate any conviction whatsoever as a ground of deportation.[114]

[114] Ibid.