Oscar Gonzalez-Castillo v. Merrick Garland

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

OSCAR OSWALDO GONZALEZ- No. 21-70112

CASTILLO,

Petitioner, Agency No.

A216-429-376

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 12, 2022 San Francisco, California

Filed August 31, 2022

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

Opinion by Judge Clifton

* The Honorable Christina Reiss, United States District Judge for the District of Vermont, sitting by designation. GONZALEZ-CASTILLO V. GARLAND

SUMMARY **

Immigration

Granting in part and dismissing in part Oscar Gonzalez- Castillo’s petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, and remanding, the panel held that: (1) substantial evidence did not support the agency’s determination that Gonzalez-Castillo was ineligible for withholding of removal based on the serious nonpolitical crime bar; (2) the agency erred by failing to consider all of Gonzalez-Castillo’s…