Criminal Defense of Immigrants

Noncitizen clients may be subject to inadmissibility or deportability or both on the basis of a drug offense.  The drug-related grounds of each of these immigration consequences are described below.  Many forms of relief from removal are barred to noncitizens who have been involved with drugs, whether or not they are convicted.[16]

[16] See § 21.16, Chapter 24, infra.