Torres-Torres

MEMORANDUM

Petitioner Torres-Torres, a thirty-eight year old citizen of Mexico with four United States citizen children, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) affirmance of an immigration judge’s (IJ) denial of her application for cancellation of removal. The ground for the IJ’s denial which the BIA affirmed was his conclusion that because she “lied” to an asylum officer, Torres-Torres lacked good moral character and was, therefore, statutorily ineligible for cancellation of removal. 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (f)(6).

The record is devoid of any evidence that the disputed misrepresentation Torres-Torres made to the asylum officer during an interview was “made with the subjective intent of obtaining immigration benefits.” Kungys v. United States, 485 U.S. 759, 780 , 108 S.Ct. 1587 , 99 L.Ed.2d 839 (1988). With respect to her testimony before the IJ, he found it to be credible. We take note of the government’s failure in its response brief either to refer to Kungys or to respond to Torres-Torres’s argument that the requisite subjective intent element is missing from the administrative evidentiary record.

However, the IJ also determined that Torres-Torres had failed…