Hernandez-Guardarrama

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DANIEL SALVADOR HERNANDEZ- 

GUADARRAMA, No. 03-72084 Petitioner, v.  Agency No.

A75-268-684

JOHN ASHCROFT, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted October 5, 2004—Seattle, Washington

Filed January 10, 2005

Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Stephen Reinhardt, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Reinhardt

263 266 HERNANDEZ-GUADARRAMA v. ASHCROFT

COUNSEL

Matt Adams, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, Granger, Washington, for the petitioner.

Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Richard M. Evans, Assistant Director; and Joan E. Smiley, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Divi- sion, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

OPINION

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

Daniel Salvador Hernandez-Guadarrama (“Hernandez”), a native and citizen of Mexico and a conditional permanent res- ident of the United States, petitions for review of a decision by the…