The U.S. Supreme Court has recently reached a 9-0 decision determining that an immigrant need not be automatically deported from the United States following a minor drug conviction. In the reviewed case the immigrant had been sentenced to 20 days in jail for having 2 ounces of marijuana and a pill of Xanax.
Despite being only misdemeanors under state law, the federal government argued the the two offenses were commensurate with an aggravated felony. An immigrant who is convicted of an aggravated felony is generally automatically removable from the United States.