Ivan Valdez Amador v. Merrick Garland

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

IVAN VALDEZ AMADOR, No. 13-71406 Petitioner, Agency No. v. A092-323-856

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.

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

Argued and Submitted October 8, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed March 9, 2022

Before: Susan P. Graber and John B. Owens, Circuit Judges, and Jack Zouhary, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Zouhary; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Graber

* The Honorable Jack Zouhary, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, sitting by designation. SUMMARY **

Immigration

Denying in part and granting in part Ivan Valdez Amador’s petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, and remanding, the panel concluded that Valdez’s conviction for domestic violence, in violation of California Penal Code § 273.5(a), rendered him removable, but remanded for the BIA to consider whether his rape conviction for felony rape of an unconscious person, in…