Ilona King v. Loretta E. Lynch

MEMORANDUM

Ilona King petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissing her appeal from an Immigration Judge’s (“U”) order that pretermitted her applications for adjustment of status and a waiver of inadmissibility. The IJ determined that King was inadmissible under 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (a)(2)(C)(i). We review for substantial evidence, see Alarcon-Serrano v. I.N.S., 220 F.3d 1116, 1119 (9th Cir.2000), and deny King’s petition.

1. The agency’s determination that there was reason to believe that King knowingly colluded with her brother in the illicit trafficking of methamphetamine is supported by substantial evidence. See 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (a)(2)(C)(i); Alarcon-Serrano, 220 F.3d at 1119 . On the record before the IJ, a reasonable adjudicator would not be compelled to reach a different conclusion than the agency’s, given the items that the police found in the living room of the house that King indicated that she owned, King’s presence in the house when the police found the items, the living room’s location in the house, and King, her brother, and her husband’s statements about the items to the investigating police officers. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (b)(4)(B);…