Veloz-Luvevano v. Lynch

O’BRIEN, Circuit Judge.

In February 2010, after being on the lam for almost a decade after his initial arrest, Manuel Veloz-Luvevano, a native and citizen of Mexico, pled guilty to criminal impersonation in violation of Colorado law: Col.Rev.Stat. § 18 — 5—113(l)(d), a class 6 felony and a crime involving moral turpitude (CIMT). He now rues his decision and seeks to be excused from the resulting consequences by offering a number of conveniently contrived arguments. Stripped of procedural and rhetorical gloss his arguments come down to this: even though the crime to which he pled guilty is,…