The below resources provide legal explanations, strategies, and tools for the practice of “crim/imm,” the law governing the intersection of immigration and crimes, especially as it applies to California law. The Notes below cover different crimes-related grounds of inadmissibility and deportability in immigration law, as well as strategies for criminal defense counsel.
Immigration advocates and criminal defenders register to access the full California Quick Reference Chart at this link.
§ N.0 Overview of Crim-Imm (2026)
§ N.1 How to Analyze a Crim-Imm Case (March 2023)
§ N.2 Definition of Conviction (April 2019)
§ N.3 How to Use the Categorical Approach Now (October 2021)
§ N.4 California Sentences and Immigration (November 2020)
§ N.5 SB 54 and the California Values Act (February 2018)
§ N.6 Aggravated Felonies (2017)
§ N.7 All Those Rules About Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude (May 2021)
§ N.8 Controlled Substances (March 2019)
- § N.8A How to Defend Immigrants Charged with Drug Offenses, Including New Penal Code § 372.5 (January 2023)
- § N.8B (1) Immigrants and Marijuana (May 2021)
- § N.8B (2) Template Brief in Removal Proceedings
- § N.8C (1) Immigrants and Substance and Alcohol Use Disorder-A Legal and Medical Perspective (August 2023)
- § N.8C (2) Immigrants and Substance and Alcohol Use Disorder-A Legal and Medical Perspective (August 2023)
- § N.8D Pereida v. Wilkinson (focusing on categorical approach and drugs)
- § N.8E California Prop 36: H&S C 11395 and other Drug Provisions (June 2025)
§ N.10 Sex Offenses (March 2014)
§ N.11 Burglary, Theft and Fraud (January 2019)
§ N.12 Firearms (2024)
§ N.13 Convictions that Bar the Defendant from Petitioning for Family Members: the Adam Walsh Act
§ N.14 Overview of California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants (July 2022)
§ N.15 Delinquency (June 2019)
- § N.15A Confidentiality of Juvenile Records in California (September 2022)
- § N.15B What are the Immigration Consequences of Delinquency (March 2020)
- § N.15C Quick Reference Chart: Immigration Consequences, Possible Relief, in Delinquency Proceedings (May 2022)
- § N.15D Overview of Seeking SIJS Findings in Juvenile Court (Sept. 2023)
- § N.15E Guidance for Obtaining SIJS State Court Predicate Orders in California (June 2021)
- § N.15F The Laken Riley Act (Mandatory Detention Law) and Juvenile Delinquency (March 2025)
§ N.16 Client Questionnaire (July 2020)