Anaya-Ortiz

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

VIRGILIO ANAYA-ORTIZ, 

Petitioner, No. 03-74666 v.  Agency No.

A092-962-367

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

Argued and Submitted August 6, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed January 27, 2009

Before: Marsha S. Berzon and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges, and James K. Singleton,* Senior District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta

*The Honorable James K. Singleton, United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Gary Finn, Indio, California, for the petitioner.

Jennifer J. Keeney and Melissa Neiman-Kelting, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

Virgilio Anaya-Ortiz (Anaya), a native and citizen of Mex- ico, petitions for review of a decision by the Board of Immi- gration Appeals (BIA) dismissing his appeal and ordering him removed to Mexico. We deny the petition.

I

According to an abstract of judgment dated June 4, 2001, Anaya pleaded…