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LAGUNAS-SALGADO v. HOLDER

Nos. 07-3396, 08-1452.

584 F.3d 707 (2009)

Jesus LAGUNAS-SALGADO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 13, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Royal F. Berg, Attorney (argued), Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

James A. Hurley, Attorney, Karen Y. Stewart, Paul T. Cygnarowicz (argued), Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before FLAUM, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

The Board of Immigration Appeals and this court have long considered crimes with fraud as an element to be crimes involving moral turpitude. Jesus Lagunas-Salgado was convicted of fraud in connection with identification documents, but he maintains his crime was not one of moral turpitude because he did not defraud the customers who bought false documents from him (they knew they were getting false documents, after all), he made the false Social...

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