Criminal Defense of Immigrants

Chapter

§12.1 I. Introduction
§12.2 II. Noncitizens in Juvenile Proceedings
§12.3 A. Defense Strategy
§12.4 B. Avoiding Damaging Admissions
§12.5 C. Immigration Detention
§12.6 D. Citizenship
§12.7 E. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
§12.8 F. Finding of Juvenile Delinquency
§12.9 G. Sentence
§12.10 III. Noncitizen Minors in Adult and Youthful Offender Proceedings
§12.11 A. Conviction
§12.12 1. General Rule
§12.13 2. Eligibility for FJDA Transfer
§12.14 B. Foreign Adult Court Convictions of Minors
§12.15 C. Adult Court Jurisdiction Over Minor
§12.16 D. Post-Conviction Relief
§12.17 E. Sentence - Type of Institution
§12.18 F. Transfer from Juvenile to Adult Court under FJDA Not Possible for Conspiracy
§12.19 G. Transfer from Adult to Juvenile Court
§12.20 IV. Immigration Consequences of Juvenile Court Actions
§12.21 A. Conviction - Juvenile Court Adjudication Not a Conviction
§12.22 B. Discretionary Factor
§12.23 C. Deportability
§12.24 1. Conduct-Based Grounds
§12.25 2. False Claim to U.S. Citizenship
§12.26 3. Domestic Violence TRO Violation
§12.27 4. Other Grounds
§12.28 D. Inadmissibility
§12.29 1. Conduct-Based Grounds
§12.30 2. Controlled Substances: Admission by Minor Ineffective
§12.31 3. Crime of Moral Turpitude
§12.32 a. Admission by Minor Ineffective
§12.33 b. Youthful Offender Exception
§12.34 4. Reason to Believe Illicit Trafficker
§12.35 5. Visa Fraud
§12.36 6. Other Grounds
§12.37 E. Relief
§12.38 V. Resources

§ 12.21 (C)

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(C) Juvenile Arrest Must be Disclosed. A juvenile arrest does count as an arrest for immigration purposes. Therefore, an applicant for residence must acknowledge the arrest to the DHS. An applicant can truthfully put down that the disposition was “adjudicated delinquent” instead of characterizing the juvenile court disposition as a conviction of a crime.