Gonzalo Mendoza Matias v. Merrick Garland

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS AUG 9 2022

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

GONZALO MENDOZA MATIAS, No. 18-71478

Petitioner, Agency No. A087-536-498

v.

MEMORANDUM*

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General,

Respondent.

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

Submitted August 5, 2022** Pasadena, California

Before: SILER,*** CALLAHAN, and FORREST, Circuit Judges.

Gonzalo Mendoza-Matias, an indigenous Mayan man from Guatemala,

seeks review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying his

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). *** The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation. request for protection from removal in withholding proceedings. He challenges the

immigration judge’s (IJ)…