Panel:  Immigrant’s Removal Proper Based On Mortgage Lending Fraud Conviction

(November 21, 2022, 3:42 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 18 ruled that the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) did not err in upholding an immigration judge’s ruling that a U.S. immigrant was removable based on his conviction for mortgage lending fraud because, under the “three-step categorical and modified categorical approach,” the immigrant’s conviction comprised an aggravated felony....

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