390 F.3d 649 (9th Cir. 2004) Cited 53 times
Holding that an unadmitted noncitizen who was convicted of a crime of domestic violence—a conviction that renders an admitted noncitizen deportable under § 1227 but that does not render an unadmitted noncitizen inadmissible under § 1182—was ineligible for cancellation of removal because "[t]he plain language of § 1229b indicates that it should be read to cross-reference a list of offenses in three statutes, rather than the statutes as a whole"