Manuel Hernandez v. Merrick Garland

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MANUEL ANTONIO HERNANDEZ, No. 20-70158 AKA Manuel Antonio Hernandez, Petitioner, Agency No.

A073-897-003

v.

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney OPINION General, Respondent.

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

Argued and Submitted April 14, 2022 San Francisco, California

Filed June 27, 2022

Before: Richard R. Clifton and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and Christina Reiss, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Reiss

* The Honorable Christina Reiss, United States District Judge for the District of Vermont, sitting by designation. SUMMARY **

Immigration

Denying Manuel Antonio Hernandez’s petition for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), the panel held that Hernandez’s previous grant of special rule cancellation of removal and adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident under section 203 of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (“NACARA”) qualified as a cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b, thus rendering him…