What would it take for Justin Bieber to get deported?

What would it take for Justin Bieber to get deported?
By Matt Pearce
January 23, 2014, 12:21 p.m.

Bieber has made himself inextricable from American pop culture, but he is not actually American. A Canadian citizen -- reportedly in the U.S. on an O-1 performer's visa -- he can be deported if convicted of a serious crime or if officials deem him a big enough troublemaker, attorneys say.




Immigration law can get complicated when it comes to deportation.
Tolchin said a nonpermanent resident can get kicked out of the U.S. if found guilty of a felony capable of bringing a sentence longer than a year in prison; even if someone is sentenced to less than a year in prison on such a charge, they could still be deported.
Of Bieber's Miami Beach charges, Tolchin said, "All that stuff, obviously it’s not good, but it’s not going to be a violation of his status. Let’s say if it’s assault, a felony assault, and he’s convicted; that’s a big problem.”
A drug conviction, too, can be "a big problem" for Bieber's life in the U.S. if the star were to get hit with such a charge, Tolchin said. “He really needs to get excellent criminal defense and an excellent immigration attorney," she said.
Carl Shusterman, a Los Angeles attorney specializing in immigration law and a former immigration prosecutor, added that if Bieber admitted to police that he abused drugs, it could be a big problem.
Shusterman pointed to a provision in U.S. immigration law that states, "Any alien who is, or at any time after admission has been, a drug abuser or addict is deportable."
Immigration law also allows U.S. officials to deport visitors for "moral turpitude," which is a hazier area of U.S. law, immigration attorneys said.
"That’s an immigration term, and it can get you deported generally for intentional or knowing malicious conduct of some kind,” said Mitchell Ignatoff, a criminal defense attorney in Englewood, N.J., who has handled immigration cases. “There’s a long history of what crimes involve moral turpitude under immigration laws. Theft is one; certain violent crimes."
And much of it involves the immigrant's mental state during the crime. If the alleged drag racing was "intentional or knowing" in that it could cause bodily harm, perhaps that could be considered moral turpitude, Ignatoff said.
But it depends on whether Bieber is convicted.
“Right now he’s not facing anything unless he gets convicted," Ignatoff said.
That said, Bieber's arrest is practically guaranteed to make his life more difficult even if the charges are dropped, according to Paul Herzog, an L.A.-based attorney who has handled green cards for entertainers and musicians.
“In the future, any time he tries to come in the country, or tries to renew his visa, it’s going to slow, because he’s been arrested," said Herzog. "It’s going to be a flag."
Although Bieber told Rolling Stone in 2011 that he was not interested in becoming a U.S. citizen, he could now face some obstacles if he changes his mind.
"You have to have good moral conduct to become a U.S. citizen, and that’s much harder when you’re convicted of something," Ignatoff said.

ジャスティン・ビーバー、飲酒運転で逮捕されたわけだが、有罪判決を受ければ、強制退去の憂き目にあうこともあるし、アメリカへの帰化もむずかしくなるかもしれない、と。