22 Dec 2020

Matter of Rivera-Mendoza, 28 I&N Dec. 184 (BIA 2020)

Matter of Rivera-Mendoza, 28 I&N Dec. 184 (BIA 2020)

The risk of harm to a child required to obtain a conviction for child neglect in the second degree under section 163.545(1) of the Oregon Revised Statutes is sufficiently high that the offense is categorically a “crime of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment” under section 237(a)(2)(E)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(E)(i) (2018).