<p>I read of cases that bear out Xiggi’s observations; as far as ICE is concerned, it’s a conviction itself that’s the keystone to deportation, not the severity (or lack thereof) of the sentence. In Washington State and in New York for example, long time resident non-USA citizens were seized by ICE and scheduled for deportation based on criminal convictions for relatively minor drug offenses commited by them when they were youngters. In both cases I speak of, these folks had no major confrontations with the law prior to their deportation problem and they bore children whom were born in the USA.</p>