text: on the majority reading,legal permanent residents with convictions for minor state offenses are foreclosed from even appealing to the mercy of the attorney general.against our standard method for comparing statutes and the text and structure of the ina,the majority stacks a supposed superfluity,a practice,and its conviction that jurisdictional elements are mere technicalities.but an element is an element,and i would not so lightly strip a federal statute of one.i respectfully dissent.