Legal Opinion
Pablo Abraham Campos v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 10, 1994No. 92-4166PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
This is an immigration ease in which the petitioner is an alien who faces deportation on account of a 1985 drug trafficking conviction for which he served more than five years in prison. The petitioner applied for a discretionary waiver of deportation under § 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c), but he was held to be ineligible for such a waiver because of a proviso that was added to § 212(c) in 1990.
In 1988 the immigration statutes were amended by the addition of a definition of the term “aggravated felony.” This definition, which…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Harisiades v. ShaughnessySupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Galvan v. PressSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Cox v. HartSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Jorge Luis Buitrago-Cuesta v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1993
- United States v. Ingrid Josefina BodreCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1991
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Kenneth Jay Wilson v. Lewis Yaklich, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee. Kenneth Jay Wilson v. Mary SanfordCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1998
- Barbara Combs v. Commissioner of Social SecurityCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2006
- Jurado-Gutierrez v. GreeneCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1999
- James Scheidemann v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1996
- Usama J. Hamama v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1996
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