Criminal Defense of Immigrants



 
 

§ 10.65 (C)

 
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(C)  Multiple Conviction Ground of Inadmissibility Requires Aggregate Sentences of Five Years or More.  A noncitizen is inadmissible if s/he has been convicted of two or more offenses, other than purely political offenses, for which the aggregate sentences to confinement were five years or more.[278]  See § § 10.71, infra.

 


[278] INA § 212(a)(2)(B), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(B).  It is not necessary that these offenses be crimes of moral turpitude, and does not matter whether the convictions resulted from one or more proceedings or schemes of criminal misconduct.  Ibid.

 

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