The following excerpt is from United States v. Garcia-Santana, 774 F.3d 528 (9th Cir. 2014):
The INA is quite different than those statutes. It is not a conspiracy offense. It defines aggravated felonies for the purpose not of defining and penalizing criminal conduct, but of assigning various immigration consequences to prior convictions. See, e.g., United States v. CoronaSanchez, 291 F.3d 1201, 1209 n. 8 (9th Cir.2002) (en banc) (listing the various uses of the aggravated felony concept in the INA).8 Such collateral consequences attach to convictions from all jurisdictions, not merely to federal convictions.
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