Judith Aurora Jarquin Maria Celeste Jarquin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

24 F.3d 247 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Judith Aurora JARQUIN; Maria Celeste Jarquin, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 93-70685. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted May 9, 1994. * Decided May 13, 1994. Before: NOONAN and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and EZRA ** , District Judge: MEMORANDUM *** Petitioner Judith Jarquin claims that the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) erred by taking administrative notice of changes in Nicaragua. She relies on this court's decision in Castillo-Villagra v. INS, 972 F.2d 1017, 1028 (9th Cir.1992). In that case, however, we held that it was proper for the BIA to take notice of legislative facts. In the present case, the facts of which the BIA took administrative notice were essentially legislative. Also, Jarquin was on notice that the BIA would take administrative notice of the changed situation in Nicaragua. For these reasons, it was not an abuse of discretion…