Abdul Azim Jaghoori v. Eric Holder, Jr.

Abdul Jaghoori, a native and citizen of Afghanistan and a lawful permanent resident of the United States since 1989, was convicted of at least two crimes involving moral turpitude while residing in Virginia — a 1995 conviction for credit card theft and a 2010 conviction for prescription fraud. He concedes that the two convictions render him removable under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii). Jaghoori seeks discretionary relief from his order of removal with his application for, among other things, cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a). That section authorizes the Attorn’ey General to…