Opinion ID: 654589
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Heading: Entry Without Inspection as Analogous to a Ground for Exclusion.

Text: 13 Bedoya-Valencia first contends that he is entitled to a Sec. 1182(c) hearing because entry without inspection is analogous to a ground for exclusion, failure to present proper documents for admission. We disagree. Section 1182(a)(7)(A)(i) provides: 14 Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, any immigrant at the time of application for admission-- 15 (I) who is not in possession of a valid unexpired immigrant visa, reentry permit, border crossing identification card, or other valid entry document required by this chapter, and a valid unexpired passport, or other suitable travel document, or document of identity and nationality if such document is required under the regulations issued by the Attorney General under section 1181(a) of this title, or 16 (II) whose visa has been issued without compliance with the provisions of section 1153 of this title, 17 is excludable. 18 In contrast, section 1251(a)(1)(B) provides: 19 Any alien who entered the United States without inspection or at any time or place other than as designated by the Attorney General or is in the United States in violation of this chapter or any other law of the United States is deportable. 20 The issue is to be determined by a standard of substantial[ ] equivalen[ce]. Campos, 961 F.2d at 313 n. 6 (citing In re Salmon, 16 I. & N.Dec. 734 (1978)); cf. Cabasug v. INS, 847 F.2d 1321, 1324 (9th Cir.1988) (crime involving moral turpitude category similar but not identical under deportation and exclusion statutes). This standard is not satisfied by a comparison of these provisions. See Hernandez-Casillas, 1990 WL 385764 at  25 n. 4 (according to Attorney General, illegal entry is one of two grounds for deportation that have no analogue in the grounds for exclusion); In re M--, 5 I. & N.Dec. 642, 647 (BIA 1954) (entry without inspection is ground of deportation but not exclusion); In re T--, 5 I. & N.Dec. 389, 390 (BIA 1953) (same). Entry without inspection involves a calculated avoidance of the admission procedure; it is hardly equivalent to an invocation of that procedure that is undermined by faulty documents. 21 Bedoya-Valencia argues that he did not present himself for inspection when he returned to the United States because he lacked proper admission documents. That may be true, but it does not render the resulting illegal entry substantially equivalent, as a matter of statutory definition, to the motivating lack of documentation. 22