Pedro Vasquez-Borjas v. Merrick Garland

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

PEDRO ANTONIO VASQUEZ-BORJAS, No. 17-70867 Petitioner, Agency No. v. A028-889-216

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted October 22, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed June 6, 2022

Before: Consuelo M. Callahan and Danielle J. Forrest, Circuit Judges, and Carol Bagley Amon, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Forrest

* The Honorable Carol Bagley Amon, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, sitting by designation. VASQUEZ-BORJAS V. GARLAND

SUMMARY **

Immigration

Denying in part and dismissing in part Pedro Antonio Vasquez-Borjas’s petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, the panel held that a forgery under California Penal Code § 472 is a crime involving moral turpitude.

Vasquez-Borjas was convicted of forgery under Section 472 for possession of a counterfeit government seal—a Social Security card that he knew was fake. The BIA concluded…