Valdez-Camacho v. Ashcroft

MEMORANDUM *

Sijifredo Valdez-Camaeho petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) ordering him removed pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii), which makes an alien removable for having committed an aggravated felony. “Aggravated felony” is defined under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(A) to include “sexual abuse of a minor.” Valdez-Camacho argues that he has not been convicted of an “aggravated felony” under § 1101(a)(43)(A).

Under the “categorical approach” laid out in Taylor v. United States, 495 U.S. 575, 110 S.Ct. 2143, 109 L.Ed.2d 607 (1990), “[t]he crime defined…