United States v. Carlos Pacheco

I respectfully dissent. In my view, Carlos Pacheco’s three suspended sentences of one-year’s imprisonment for misdemeanor convictions cannot constitute “aggravated felonies” within the meaning of Section 101 (a)(43)(F) & (G) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(F) & (G), unless we adopt an “Alice-in-Wonderland-like definition of the term ‘aggravated felony’” that does violence to the plain and settled meanings of both “aggravated” and “felony.” Nancy Morawetz, Understanding the Impact of the 1996 Deportation Laws and the Limited Scope of the Proposed…