Torres-Chavez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

EDUARDO TORRES-CHAVEZ, 

Petitioner, No. 05-72226 v.  Agency No.

A090-543-482

ERIC H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted March 10, 2009—San Francisco, California

Filed June 5, 2009

Before: M. Margaret McKeown and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges, and Frederic Block,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta

*The Honorable Frederic Block, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, sitting by designation.

6765 6768 TORRES-CHAVEZ v. HOLDER

COUNSEL

Steven P. Brazelton, Reno, Nevada, for the petitioner- appellant.

Peter D. Kiesler, M. Jocelyn Lopez Wright, Carol Federighi, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent-appellee.

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

Eduardo Torres-Chavez petitions for review of a final order of removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). He claims that his concession of…