Other Immigration Law ICS' removal course of action

[Midlife]

My friend has a domestic battery conviction of PC 242 in California.
BIA and 9th circuit have given decisions that the conviction is neither
CIMT nor categorically a COV. Would CIS still place him
in removal proceedings knowing well that IJ could terminate proceedings
based on the decisions?

 

[Michael Wechsler]

My friend has a domestic battery conviction of PC 242 in California.
BIA and 9th circuit have given decisions that the conviction is neither
CIMT nor categorically a COV. Would CIS still place him
in removal proceedings knowing well that IJ could terminate proceedings
based on the decisions?

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