Update: What Constitutes "Sexual Abuse of a Minor" For Immigration Purposes

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Judicial decisions;    Immigration law;    Criminal justice;    Child sexual abuse;   

RP-ID  :  crs_ls_2017Jun07_abuse

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report provides an update of an earlier report from April 6, 2017, providing the final decision by the Supreme Court in the case of "Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions". The case concerned the question of whether an immigrant alien who was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor where the minor was under 18 but at least 16 (in this case statutory rape in California between a 21 year old male and a 17 year female) was removable for an aggravated felony under immigration law. The Supreme Court ruled that the immigration law required the victim be under 16 before the removal of an alien for an aggravated felony would be allowable.