Becker
Becker v. Gonzales
Opinion
Opinion
Gould COUNSEL, J.
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
MICHAEL HERBERT BECKER,
Petitioner, No. 05-76977 v. Agency No.
A97-343-613
ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
Argued and Submitted November 17, 2006—San Francisco, California
Filed January 10, 2007
Before: Proctor Hug, Jr., A. Wallace Tashima, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Gould COUNSEL
Thomas H. Tousley, Law Office of Thomas H. Tousley, Vir- ginia, for petitioner Michael Herbert Becker.
Anthony P. Nicastro, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litiga- tion, Civil Division, United States Justice Department, Wash- ington, D.C., argued for respondent Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney General. Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Richard M. Evans, Assistant Direc- tor, and David E. Dauenheimer, Attorney, Office of Immigra- tion Litigation, Civil Division, United States Justice Department, Washington, D.C., were on the brief. 252 BECKER v.…