Puga v. Chertoff

488 F.3d 812 Ramon Gama PUGA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Michael CHERTOFF, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security; Nancy Alcantar, Field Office Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees. No. 05-16902. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted February 12, 2007. Filed May 24, 2007. James Todd Bennett, El Cerrito, CA, for the petitioner-appellant. Edward A. Olsen, United States Department of Justice, United States Attorney's Office, San Francisco, CA; Papu Sandhu, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondents-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Jeremy Fogel, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-05-03607-JF. Before: J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, DOROTHY W. NELSON, and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges. McKEOWN, Circuit Judge. 1 Ramon Gama Puga, a native and citizen of Mexico, appeals the district court's dismissal of his habeas petition for lack of jurisdiction under the REAL ID Act, Pub.L. No. 109-13, § 106 (a), 119 Stat. 231 , 310-11 (May 11, 2005). The district court…