Cabrera-Alvarez
Cabrera-Alvarez v. Gonzales
Opinion
Opinion
GRABER, J.
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
EDMER ROGELIO CABRERA-ALVAREZ,
Petitioner, No. 04-72487 v. Agency No.
A79-812-102
ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
Argued and Submitted June 17, 2005—Seattle, Washington
Filed September 8, 2005
Before: Harry Pregerson, Susan P. Graber, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Graber; Dissent by Judge Pregerson
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COUNSEL
Russell W. Pritchett, Pritchett & Jacobson, P.S., Bellingham, Washington, for the petitioner.
Aviva L. Poczter, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.
OPINION
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Edmer Rogelio Cabrera-Alvarez seeks cancella- tion of removal in order to prevent hardship to his two young children, who are United States citizens. He argues that the immigration judge (“IJ”), in denying him cancellation of removal, interpreted the “exceptional and extremely unusual 12626 CABRERA-ALVAREZ…