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AVILA-ANGUIANO v. HOLDER

No. 11-3958.

689 F.3d 566 (2012)

Jose Jesus AVILA-ANGUIANO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 7, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Noel J. Saleh , Noah J. Saleh, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, for Petitioner. Jesse M. Bless , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Noel J. Saleh , Noah J. Saleh, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, for Petitioner. Jesse M. Bless , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before: SILER and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges; MURPHY, District Judge.

OPINION

KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.

The immigration statute grants the Attorney General discretion to waive certain misrepresentations as grounds for removing an alien from the United States. 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(1)(H). This case concerns the scope of that discretion.

Jose Avila-Anguiano, a Mexican national, made two misrepresentations that render him "inadmissible" to the United States under 8 U.S.C. § 1182. The first occurred in 1991, when...

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