Alcala

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JOEL ALCALA, 

Petitioner, No. 04-70983 v.  Agency No. ERIC H. HOLDER, Attorney General, A70-786-414 Respondent. 

JOEL ALCALA,  No. 04-72295 Petitioner, v.  Agency No.

A70-786-414

ERIC H. HOLDER, Attorney General,

OPINION

Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued November 8, 2007 Submitted April 21, 2009 Pasadena, California

Filed April 28, 2009

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw, Carlos T. Bea, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bea; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Wardlaw COUNSEL

Victor D. Nieblas P., Law Office of Victor D. Nieblas Pradis, City of Industry, California, for the petitioner. 4952 ALCALA v. HOLDER 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 respondent.

OPINION

BEA, Circuit Judge:

We are…