Rotimi v. Holder

I concur in the Court’s opinion and judgment, but add these brief additional thoughts. Rotimi’s case is not an unsympathetic one. He entered the country lawfully (although that lawfulness has long since expired), he has been here now for 14 years, he is married to a United States citizen, and the basis for his removal, a conviction for forgery in the second degree, seems rather minor in significance. Perhaps he is a candidate for a private bill.1 Or perhaps the Government, wholly apart from the statutory waiver provision of section 212(h), might simply exercise its discretion to permit Rotimi…