Jesus Ramirez-Medina v. Merrick Garland

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JESUS RAMIREZ-MEDINA, AKA No. 16-73325 Javier Gonzalez, Petitioner, Agency No.

A079-811-177

v.

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney OPINION General, Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted November 18, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed December 22, 2021

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges, and Stephen R. Bough, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Hurwitz

* The Honorable Stephen R. Bough, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, sitting by designation. RAMIREZ-MEDINA V. GARLAND

SUMMARY **

Immigration

Denying Jesus Ramirez-Medina’s petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, the panel held that the phrase “an offense” in the cancellation of removal statute at 8 U.S.C § 1229b(b)(1)(C) includes the “[m]ultiple criminal convictions” described in § 1182(a)(2)(B).

Under 8 U.S.C § 1229b(b)(1)(C), an alien who has been “been convicted of an offense under [8 U.S.C.] section 1182(a)(2),…