Criminal Defense of Immigrants



 
 

§ 10.65 (E)

 
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(E)  Withholding of Removal Requires Avoiding Aggregate Sentences of Five Years or More as a Result of Aggravated Felony Conviction(s).  Aggregate sentences for one or more aggravated felony convictions that total five years or more disqualify a noncitizen from receiving “restriction on removal,” formerly known as “withholding of deportation,” which protects them from deportation to a country in which life or freedom would be threatened because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.  See § 10.72, infra.[280] 

 


[280] INA § § 241(b)(3)(A), (B), 8 U.S.C. § § 1251(b)(3)(A), (B).

 

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