Dalip Singh v. Gonzales

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DALIP SINGH, 

Petitioner, No. 04-72701 v.  Agency No.

A77-424-559

ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted May 17, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed November 28, 2006

Before: Alex Kozinski and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges, and Frederic Block,* Senior District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Fisher

*The Honorable Frederic Block, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, sitting by designation.

18809 18812 SINGH v. GONZALES

COUNSEL

Inna Lipkin, Law Office of Kuldip S. Dhariwal, Redwood City, California, for the petitioner.

Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey J. Bern- stein, Senior Litigation Counsel, Benedetto Giliberti, Attor- ney, and Joan Smiley (argued), Attorney, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

OPINION

FISHER, Circuit Judge:

The question posed by this case is whether an alien who…