Valencia

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MARIA LETICIA VALENCIA, 

Petitioner, No. 04-76571 v.  Agency No.

A078-009-078

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

Argued and Submitted September 12, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed December 4, 2008

Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and Brian E. Sandoval,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Schroeder

*The Honorable Brian E. Sandoval, United States District Judge for the District of Nevada, sitting by designation.

15927 VALENCIA v. MUKASEY 15929

COUNSEL

Sassoun Nalbandian, Valley Village, California, for petitioner Maria Leticia Valencia.

Michele Y. F. Sarko, Washington, DC, for respondent Michael B. Mukasey.

OPINION

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

Maria Leticia Valencia appeals the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision affirming her order of removal on the basis of a 1984 California conviction for transporting heroin. The only issue raised in her petition is whether the IJ…