Liliana Ramirez Trujillo v. Eric Holder, Jr.

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584 F. App'x 747
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitSeptember 5, 201412-73293,California346 words

Opinion

Opinion

MEMORANDUM

Liliana Ramirez Trujillo (“Petitioner”), a twenty-six-year-old agricultural worker and mother, seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision affirming her order of removal and dismissing her appeal of the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her motion to suppress evidence. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny her petition for review.

We need not reach Petitioner’s sole argument on appeal — that the BIA erred in affirming the denial of her motion to suppress evidence — because, after the IJ denied this motion, Petitioner admitted the allegations in the Notice to Appear (“NTA”) and conceded that she was removable as charged. These admissions and concession of removability were sufficient for the government to meet its evidentiary burden, Perez-Mejia v. Holder, 663 F.3d 403, 414-15 (9th Cir.2011), and they provide an independent basis upon which to sustain Petitioner’s order of removal, I.N.S. v. Lopez-Mendoza, 468 U.S. 1032, 1043 , 104 S.Ct. 3479 , 82 L.Ed.2d 778 (1984).

Even if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) agents egregiously vio^ lated Petitioner’s Fourth and/or Fifth Amendment rights when they initially…

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