Legal Opinion
Rosa Pena v. Sessions
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 14, 2018No. 17-1310PPublished
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This petition for review presents the question of whether the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") decision is sustainable on the reasoning it used to conclude that a violation of Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266, § 2 ("Massachusetts Arson") is categorically a crime involving moral turpitude ("CIMT") under the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), Pub. L. No. 82-414, 66 Stat. 163 (1952) (codified as amended in scattered sections of 8 U.S.C.). The consequence of this BIA ruling is that petitioner Domingo Antonio Rosa Pena ("Rosa") is removable. We remand to the BIA due to its…
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- Maghsoudi v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1999
- Commonwealth v. McLaughlinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
- Dusko Vuksanovic v. U.S. Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2006
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