VASQUEZ v. GARLAND

No. 21-6380. August Term, 2022.

80 F.4th 422 (2023)

Jose Ramon Peguero VASQUEZ, Petitioner, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 13, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tiffany J. Lieu ( Philip L. Torrey , on the brief), Crimmigration Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, for Petitioner.

Rohmah A. Javed , John H. Peng , Laura A. Rion , Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Albany, NY, for Petitioner.

Erica B. Miles , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation ( Craig A. Newell, Jr. , Senior Litigation Counsel, on the brief), for Brian M. Boynton , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Mauricio E. Noroña , The Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY for Amici Curiae Brooklyn Defender Services; The Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; The Bronx Defenders; and The Legal Aid Society.

Andrew Wachtenheim , Nabilah Siddiquee , Immigrant Defense Project, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Immigrant Defense Project.

Judge Robinson dissents in a separate opinion.


The Department of Homeland Security placed Jose Ramon Peguero Vasquez in removal proceedings on account of prior convictions for, among other things, criminal possession of a forged instrument in violation of New York law. An immigration judge found that this offense, committed in 2017, was a crime involving moral turpitude...

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