Legal Opinion
Carlos Bastardo-Vale v. Attorney General United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 12, 2019No. 17-2017PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHWARTZ, Circuit Judge.
*258Today we decide whether the phrase "particularly serious crime" as used in both the asylum and withholding of removal statutes, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158(b)(2), 1231(b)(3), includes, but is not limited to, aggravated felonies. We hold that it does. The phrase "particularly serious crime" means the same thing in both statutes, and the language of those statutes shows that aggravated felonies are a subset of particularly serious crimes.
In reaching this conclusion, we overrule Alaka v. Attorney General, 456 F.3d 88 (3d Cir. 2006), where we defined the phrase "particularly serious…
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