VALENZUELA GALLARDO v. BARR

No. 18-72593.

968 F.3d 1053 (2020)

Agustin VALENZUELA GALLARDO, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 6, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Sprouls (argued) and John E. Ricci , Law Office of Ricci & Sprouls, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner.

Rebecca Hoffberg Phillips (argued), Trial Attorney; John S. Hogan , Assistant Director; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

Amalia Wille and Judah Lakin , Van Der Hout Brigagliano & Nightingale LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae American Immigration Lawyers Association, U.C. Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice—Asian Law Caucus.

Before: Eugene E. Siler, Kim McLane Wardlaw, and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.


OPINION

"Any alien who is convicted of an aggravated felony at any time after admission is deportable." 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii). In 1996, Congress expanded the list of crimes that the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) defines as an "aggravated felony" to include "an offense relating to obstruction...

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