Jose Vazquez-Ardon v. Merrick Garland

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEB 10 2022

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JOSE LUIS VAZQUEZ-ARDON, No. 20-73148

Petitioner, Agency No. A206-836-726

v.

MEMORANDUM*

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General,

Respondent.

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

Argued and Submitted January 13, 2022 Pasadena, California

Before: CLIFTON and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and S. MURPHY, III, ** District Judge.

Petitioner Jose Vazquez-Ardon seeks review of an immigration judge’s

(“IJ”) reasonable fear of persecution and torture findings, which the IJ made in the

course of reviewing an asylum officer’s adverse reasonable fear determination

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Stephen Joseph Murphy, III, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, sitting by designation. during expedited reinstatement of removal order proceedings. See 8 C.F.R.

§§ 208.31, 241.8. We review an IJ’s…