8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(1)(C)(i)

TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY

CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY

SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION

Part IV--Inspection, Apprehension, Examination, Exclusion, and Removal

Sec. 1227. Deportable aliens

(a) Classes of deportable aliens

1) Inadmissible at time of entry or of adjustment of status

or violates status

(C) Violated nonimmigrant status or condition of entry

(i) Nonimmigrant status violators

Any alien who was admitted as a nonimmigrant and who has

failed to maintain the nonimmigrant status in which the

alien was admitted or to which it was changed under section

1258 of this title, or to comply with the conditions of any

such status, is deportable.