Criminal Defense of Immigrants

(B)  Conduct-Based Immigration Consequences of Crimes.  Many different grounds of deportation, and other adverse immigration consequences of crimes, are based on status or “conduct,” rather than upon a criminal conviction.  See § 7.7, infra.  These conduct-based immigration consequences are not necessarily avoided by avoiding or eliminating a criminal conviction, since they depend upon what the client did out there in the streets, and altering a conviction does not change the historical facts of what the client actually did.