Arteaga

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JEAN PIERRE ARTEAGA, 

Petitioner, No. 05-70368 v.  Agency No.

A92-085-513

MICHAEL B. MUKASEY,* Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted June 8, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed December 27, 2007

Before: Stephen S. Trott and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and Samuel P. King,** Senior Judge.

Opinion by Judge Trott

*Michael B. Mukasey is substituted for his predecessor, Alberto R. Gonzales, as Attorney General of the United States, pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 43(c)(2). **The Honorable Samuel P. King, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Shan D. Potts, Berke Law Offices, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner.

Genevieve Holm and Jonathan Robbins, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the respondent.

OPINION

TROTT, Circuit Judge:

Abraham Lincoln, one of our nation’s wisest…