Lolong

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MARJORIE KONDA LOLONG, 

Petitioner, No. 03-72384 v.  Agency No.

A77-427-355

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

Argued and Submitted October 5, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed May 7, 2007

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Circuit Judge, Harry Pregerson, Pamela Ann Rymer, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Michael Daly Hawkins, Sidney R. Thomas, Barry G. Silverman, M. Margaret McKeown, Raymond C. Fisher, Ronald M. Gould, Richard A. Paez, Richard C. Tallman, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Jay S. Bybee, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bybee; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Thomas Robert B. Jobe, Hilari Allred, Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, California, for petitioner Marjorie Lolong.

Jonathan F. Cohn & Isaac R. Campbell, Department of Jus- tice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

OPINION

BYBEE, Circuit Judge:

Marjorie Konda Lolong petitions for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”)…