Kawashima

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

AKIO KAWASHIMA; FUSAKO 

KAWASHIMA,

Petitioners, No. 04-74313 v.  Agency Nos.

A38-554-590

ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney A38-554-591 General, Respondent. 

AKIO KAWASHIMA; FUSAKO 

KAWASHIMA, aka Fusako Nakajima, No. 05-74408 Petitioners, Agency Nos. v.  A38-554-590 ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney A38-554-591 General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted February 8, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed September 18, 2007

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Edward Leavy, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain

12503 12506 KAWASHIMA v. GONZALES

COUNSEL

Judith L. Wood, Law Offices of Judith L. Wood, Los Ange- les, California, argued the cause for the petitioners, and filed briefs; Todd Beacraft, Law Offices of Judith L. Wood, Los Angeles, California, was on the briefs.

Nancy Freedman, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washing-…