Santacruz

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 07-55470 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-07633-DDP

JUAN ANDRES SANTACRUZ,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Dean D. Pregerson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 10, 2009—Pasadena, California

Filed April 20, 2009

Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Carlos T. Bea, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam Opinion COUNSEL

Robert G. Berke, Esq., Berke Law Offices, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, for the appellant.

Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Anh-Thu P. Mai, Senior Litigation Counsel, The- resa M. Healy, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Los Angeles, Cal- ifornia, for the appellee.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Juan Andres Santacruz, a native of Mexico and a natural- ized United States citizen, appeals the district court’s grant of partial summary judgment1 to the government, which sought to revoke Santacruz’s…