Lazaro

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DIONISIO LAZARO, 

Petitioner, No. 05-70165 v.  Agency No.

A24-567-373

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

Argued and Submitted February 14, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed June 4, 2008

Before: William C. Canby, Jr. and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and Stephen G. Larson,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Larson

*The Honorable Stephen G. Larson, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

James Todd Bennett, El Cerrito, California, for the petitioner.

Jeffrey J. Bernstein (argued) and Melissa Neiman-Kelting (on the brief), Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, for the respondent. 6354 LAZARO v. MUKASEY

OPINION

LARSON, District Judge:

Dionisio Lazaro, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order…