“By statute, lawfully admitted noncitizens are topic to deportation for committing two or extra crimes involving ethical turpitude on separate events. See 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(ii). A lawfully admitted Kenyan nationwide residing in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was convicted in 2014 and once more in 2019 of felony vehicular fleeing or making an attempt to elude a pursuing police officer in violation of § 3733(a.2) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes. On the premise that the offense constituted against the law involving ethical turpitude, the Division of Homeland Safety charged the Kenyan nationwide with removability primarily based on these two convictions and secured orders of elimination from the Immigration Courtroom and from the Board of Immigration Appeals. The Kenyan nationwide petitioned this Courtroom for reduction, and on de novo overview of the BIA’s closing order, we maintain that below the specific strategy, one of many felony subsections of the Pennsylvania fleeing-or-eluding statute doesn’t essentially contain ethical turpitude, and subsequently, we are going to grant the petition.”
[Hats off to Christopher R. Healy, his team, and many amici! Watch the oral argument here.]