The Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) has determined that an Oregon conviction for menacing is a crime involving moral turpitude. In so doing, the Board has stated that the element of actual inflicted fear is not necessary to determine that a crime categorically involves moral turpitude where the statute requires evil or malicious intent, and the level of threatened harm, or magnitude of menace implicit in the threat, is serious and immediate.
The full text of Matter of J-G-P- can be found here: