SILVA-TREVINO v. HOLDER

No. 11-60464.

742 F.3d 197 (2014)

Cristoval SILVA-TREVINO, also known as Cristobal Silva-Trevinio, Petitioner, v. Eric. H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 30, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elisabeth S. Brodyaga , San Benito, TX, for Petitioner.

Julie Marie Iversen , Trial Attorney, Tangerlia Cox, Lynda A. Do, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before BENAVIDES, OWEN, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.


FORTUNATO P. BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

Cristoval Silva-Trevino challenges a new method the Attorney General and the Board of Immigration Appeals ("the Board") used to determine that he had been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude for the purposes of admissibility under § 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1101, et seq. Because we find the contested method inconsistent with the unambiguous language of the relevant...

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