Gonzalez

MEMORANDUM

Ignacio O. Gonzalez, a citizen of Mexico and permanent resident of the United States, was ordered removed for violating INA, 8 U.S.C. § 1227 , § 237(a)(l)(E)(I) by assisting aliens to enter the United States illegally. Gonzalez petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) decision dismissing his appeal and affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of his motion to suppress video-taped statements and Form 1-213 records.

Where, as here, “the BIA adopts the decision of the IJ, we review the IJ’s decision as if it were that of the BIA.” Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2005) (internal quotations omitted). “We review the IJ’s findings of fact for substantial evidence and will uphold these findings if they are supported by ‘reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.’ ” Id. at 1039-40 . A petitioner contending that the IJ’s findings are erroneous must establish that the evidence compels reversal. See Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 966 (9th Cir.1998).

The IJ found that statements initially given by the illegal aliens to border patrol agents shortly after their apprehension were believable. The…