Armentero

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LUIS L. ARMENTERO, 

Petitioner-Appellant, No. 02-55368 v.  D.C. No.

CV-01-08658-TJH

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION

SERVICE, ORDER

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Terry J. Hatter, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 7, 2004—Pasadena, California

Filed June 21, 2005

Before: Thomas J. Meskill,* Warren J. Ferguson, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.

Order; Concurrence by Judge Ferguson; Dissent by Judge Berzon

COUNSEL

Marc Van Der Hout and Megan Ferstenfeld-Torres, Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP, San Francisco, Cali- fornia; Trina A. Realmuto, American Immigration Law Foun-

*The Honorable Thomas J. Meskill, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, sitting by designation.

7367 7368 ARMENTERO v. INS dation, Washington, D.C.; and Michael Tanaka, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner-appellant.

David J. Kline and Michelle E. Gorden,…