Ruiz-Vidal
Ruiz-Vidal v. Gonzales
Opinion
Opinion
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
JOSE REYES RUIZ-VIDAL,
Petitioner, No. 04-73812 v. Agency No.
A34-639-824
ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
Argued and Submitted October 20, 2006—San Francisco, California
Filed January 18, 2007
Before: Robert R. Beezer, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Stephen S. Trott, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain
775 778 RUIZ-VIDAL v. GONZALES
COUNSEL
Robert B. Jobe, Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, California, argued the cause for the petitioner and filed a brief.
Jamie M. Dowd, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., argued the cause for the respondent and filed a brief. Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, were on the brief.
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the Department of Homeland Security has met its burden of proving that the petitioner is removable from the United States as an alien…