Safe Havens

The courts have held that the specific facts of the case will not be examined to assess whether a conviction falls within a ground of deportation in the specific case before the court.[62]  This would be an administrative burden, and would not be fair or equitable to the various defendants, convicted of identical statutory violations, whose individual circumstances might or might not be held to trigger deportation. 

[62] See, e.g., Velez-Lozano v. INS, 150 App. D.C. 214, 463 F.2d 1305 (D.C. Cir. 1972);

Guerrero de Nodahl v. INS, 407 F.2d 1405 (9th Cir. 1969); Rassano v. INS, 377 F.2d 971 (7th Cir. 1966); Burr v. INS, 350 F.2d 87 (9th Cir. 1965), cert. den., 383 U.S. 915, 86 S.Ct. 905 (1966); Wadman v. INS, 329 F.2d 812 (9th Cir. 1964); Giammario v. Hurney, 311 F.2d 285 (3d Cir. 1962); Hirsch v. INS, 308 F.2d 562 (9th Cir. 1962); De Lucia v. Flagg, 297 F.2d 58 (7th Cir. 1961), cert. den., 369 U.S. 837, 82 S.Ct. 867 (1962); United States ex rel. Sollazzo v. Esperdy, 285 F.2d 341 (2d Cir.), cert. den., 366 U.S. 905, 81 S.Ct. 1049 (1961); Bisaillon v. Hogan, 257 F.2d 435 (9th Cir.), cert. den. sub nom. Bisaillon v. Sureck, 358 U.S. 872, 79 S.Ct. 112 (1958); Tseung Chu v. Cornell, 247 F.2d 929 (9th Cir.), cert. den., 355 U.S. 892, 78 S.Ct. 265 (1957); Ablett v. Brownell, 240 F.2d 625, 99 App. D.C. 387 (D.C. Cir. 1957); United States ex rel. Giglio v. Neelly, 208 F.2d 337 (7th Cir. 1953); United States ex rel. McKenzie v. Savoretti, 200 F.2d 546 (5th Cir. 1952); United States ex rel. Zaffarano v. Corsi, 63 F.2d 757 (2d Cir. 1933) (the court cannot go outside the record of conviction to determine whether in the particular instance the noncitizen’s conduct was immoral; the evidence upon which the verdict was rendered could not be considered; and the guilt of the defendant cannot be contradicted); United States ex rel. Meyer v. Day, 54 F.2d 336 (2d Cir. 1931); United States ex rel. Robinson v. Day, 51 F.2d 1022, 1023 (2d Cir. 1931) (the offense must “by its definition” necessarily involve moral turpitude, and a noncitizen cannot be deported on the basis of a conviction of an offense that does not automatically involve moral turpitude, merely because in the particular instance his actual conduct was immoral); United States ex rel. Mongiovi v. Karnuth, 30 F.2d 825 (D.N.Y. 1929); Matter of Pichardo, 21 I. & N. Dec. 330 (BIA 1996); Matter of Perez-Contreras, 20 I. & N. Dec. 615 (BIA 1992); Matter of Short, 20 I. & N. Dec. 136 (BIA 1989); Matter of Goodalle, 12 I. & N. Dec. 106 (BIA 1967); Matter of Abi-Rached, 10 I. & N. Dec. 551 (BIA 1964); Matter of W, 5 I. & N. Dec. 239 (BIA 1953).