Velasco-Giron v. Holder

Issue: (1) Whether courts should defer to published Board of Immigration Appeals case law construing the generic crime of “sexual abuse of a minor” through an ad hoc process that employs a federal civil statute as a “guide”; and (2) whether a state misdemeanor offense for sexual intercourse with an individual under the age of eighteen – which captures activity not criminalized federally or in the vast majority of states, and may be punished with unsupervised probation – is an “aggravated felony” as “sexual abuse of a minor.”