Bronsztejn v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This is yet another deportation case where, “once the machinery of the law has been set in motion, administrative and judicial authorities may be powerless to stop it, however much they wish.” Oliver v. U. S. Dept. of Justice, I. & N. Serv., 517 F.2d 426, 427 (2 Cir. 1975). The question raised in'this petition for review is whether the immigration authorities correctly characterized petitioner’s conviction for attempted possession of marijuana as a deportable offense under § 241(a)(ll) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a)(ll).1 Regretfully,…