DOMINGUEZ-RODRIGUEZ

Citations

• 26 I. & N. Dec. 408

Syllabus

DOMINGUEZ-RODRIGUEZ, 26 I&N Dec. 408 (BIA 2014) ID 3814 (PDF) For purposes of section 237(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(B)(i) (2012), the phrase \a single offense involving possession for one's own use of thirty grams or less of marijuana\ calls for a circumstance-specific inquiry into the character of the alien's unlawful conduct on a single occasion, not a categorical inquiry into the elements of a single statutory crime. Moncrieffe v. Holder, 133 S. Ct. 1678 (2013), distinguished. Matter of Davey, 26 I&N Dec. 37 (BIA 2012), reaffirmed.