Casado v. Sessions

ORDER

Jorge Luis Minier Casado, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, challenges the Board of Immigration Appeals’s conclusion that, because his conviction for robbery is a crime involving moral turpitude, it rendered him removable. The Board relied on its longtime precedent that robbery is a crime of moral turpitude, and that precedent is entitled to our deference, so we deny the petition for review.

Four years after Minier was admitted to the United States in 2011 as a lawful permanent resident, he was convicted of robbery in Illinois, see 720 ILCS 5/18-l(a). The Department of Homeland…