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§ 19.16 3. Aiding and Abetting

 
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An aider and abettor to a crime is punished as a principal.[143]  In drafting the Immigration and Nationality Act, Congress chose explicitly to include “aiding and abetting” an offense within some grounds of removal,[144] but did not do so for others.  See Appendix G, infra.

 


[143] See, e.g., 18 U.S.C. § 2.

[144] E.g., INA § 212(a)(2)(C)(i), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(C)(i) (reason to believe ground of inadmissibility applies not only to illicit traffickers in a controlled substance, but also to a person who “is or has been a knowing aider, abettor, assister, conspirator or colluder with others in the illicit trafficking . . . .”) (emphasis supplied).

 

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