Opinion ID: 4108550
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Heading: S.A Title 35 Section 780-113 subsection A16.”

Text: A.R. 571. Second, “[y]ou were, on September 26, 2013, convicted in the Municipal Court at Philadelphia for the offense of [p]urchase/receipt of controlled substance by unauthorized person, to wit: PCP, in violation of Pa. C.S.A Title 35 Section 780-113 subsection A19.” A.R. 571. The Government never lodged additional immigration charges against Rivas. See 8 C.F.R. § 1240.10(e) (“At any time during the proceeding, additional or substituted charges of inadmissibility and/or deportability and/or factual allegations may be lodged by the Service in writing.”). As a result, Rivas never received notice charging him as removable on the basis of the terms of the 2015 deferred adjudication agreement, entered almost two years after the convictions identified in the Notice to Appear. Consequently, the BIA’s finding that Rivas’s motion to terminate removal proceedings could be denied based on the deferred adjudication contravenes § 1229(a)(1)(c)’s requirement that the alien be given notice of “[t]he acts or conduct alleged to be in violation of law.” To remove Rivas on the basis of a deferred adjudication in 2015 would base his removal on an entirely different factual ground from that set 13 forth in the Notice to Appear and would violate Rivas’s due process rights to notice of the bases for his removal.5