Legal Opinion
Herrera-Inirio v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 5, 2000No. 99-1852PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In this case, the petitioner, Luis Aquiles Herrera-Inirio, hoists the red flag of federalism and seeks to overturn an order calling for his deportation entered by the Board of Immigration Appeals (the Board). The Board’s removal order rests upon its interpretation of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(48)(A), the provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act (the I & N Act) that defines the term “conviction” for immigration-related purposes. The petitioner charges that the Board misread the law, failed to give full faith and credit to the Puerto Rico courts’ construction of a Puerto…
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