Jaime Estupinan-De La Hoya v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Jaime Estupinan-De La Hoya, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, Lopez-Alvarado v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 847, 850-51 (9th Cir.2004), and we deny the petition for review.

The record does not compel reversal of the agency’s determination that Estupi-nan-De La Hoya failed to establish continuous physical presence in the United States for a period of not less than ten years as required for cancellation of removal, see 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(l)(A), where he received voluntary return following an arrest by the State Department and testified that he spent four to six hours in custody of the Department of Homeland Security during which time immigration officials probably told him that he would be put in removal proceedings, see Zarate v. Holder, 671 F.3d 1132, 1135-1138 (9th Cir.2012) (noting that the evidence required to show a formal documented process sufficient to terminate an alien’s continuous physical…