Decision date: 2019-01-26
Holding that a non-citizen's conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) constitutes clear and convincing evidence that he engaged in alien smuggling, thus rendering him removable because he was inadmissible at the time of his adjustment to LPR status, and ineligible for an INA § 237(a)(1)(H) waiver of inadmissibility.
Publication Status: Unpublished
Case judge: King, Shedd, Thacker
Decision: Morales v. Sessions, 717 F. App'x 231 (4th Cir. 2018) (No. 16-2405)