Abebe

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

YEWHALASHET ABEBE, 

Petitioner, No. 05-76201 v.  Agency No.

A26-810-941

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

Argued and Submitted March 25, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed November 20, 2008

Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Harry Pregerson, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Sidney R. Thomas, Barry G. Silverman, Ronald M. Gould, Richard C. Tallman, Richard R. Clifton, Consuelo M. Callahan, Carlos T. Bea and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam Opinion; Concurrence by Judge Clifton; Dissent by Judge Thomas

15655 15658 ABEBE v. MUKASEY

COUNSEL

Robert B. Jobe and Fatma Marouf, Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner.

Thomas H. Dupree, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General; M. Jocelyn Lopez Wright, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Liti- gation; Song E. Park, Office of Immigration Litigation, Wash- ington, DC, for the…