HERRERA-INIRIO v. I.N.S.

No. 99-1852.

208 F.3d 299 (2000)

Luis Aquiles HERRERA-INIRIO, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 5, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Zatz-Hanley, with whom Ramon M. Gonzalez was on brief, for petitioner.

Terri J. Scadron, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, with whom David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Lyle D. Jentzer, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and SELYA, Circuit Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In this case, the petitioner, Luis Aquiles Herrera-Inirio, hoists the red flag of federalism and seeks to overturn an order calling for his deportation entered by the Board of Immigration Appeals (the Board). The Board's removal order rests upon its interpretation of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(48)(A), the provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act (the I & N Act) that defines the term "conviction" for immigration-related purposes. The...

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