Of late, the Supreme Court in the United States declared that Jose angel Carachuri-Rosendo, an immigrant from Mexico, who was found guilty of a drug crime, which could be termed as secondary drug case, is not entitled to be sent back to Mexico. He was condemned of bearing a capsule of Xanax without the recommendation of a medico. The drug is used to treat anxiety. Now, the court has decided that he is not subject to automatic deportation from the US.

The convicted is a legal resident in the US since the year 1993. He was entitled to deportation earlier for two crime instances who he had committed in Texas. In the year 2004, Carachuri-Rosendo pleaded guilty to the possession of more than one pound of marijuana, for which he was awarded with a jail sentence up to 20 days. The following year, he was again founded guilty of possessing one anti-anxiety drug tablet, Xanax without a prescription. For this offense, he had already served a jail sentence of up to 10 days.

According to the US federal administration, the second instance of bearing a Xanax should be regarded as a major crime under federal law, for which he should be subjected to deportation. But the Justice John Paul Stevens disapproved the federal administration’s opinion saying that even though the conviction could have been regarded as federal crime, however, that should not be entitled to automatic deportation. Stevens also asserted that the prosecutor of the Carachuri-Rosendo case did not alleged the latter as a repeat offender. This is one of the reasons why the court did not consider the conviction as a drug crime that should be subjected to automatic deportation.