Griselda Sanchez v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

Griselda Sanchez seeks review of a final order of removal issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”). The BIA adopted and approved a decision of an immigration judge (“IJ”), finding Sanchez inadmissible under 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (a)(6)(E)®. Because the IJ’s findings are supported by substantial evidence, we deny the petition for review.

I.

Griselda Sanchez, a native and citizen of Mexico, became a legal permanent resident of the United States on May 6, 2004. On June 26, 2005, Sanchez was detained after seeking admission at the Otay Mesa, California, port of entry. Sanchez was a passenger in a car driven by her husband. Her four children and a five-year-old girl, Andrea Cortez-Miranda, were also in the car.

Border Patrol agents interviewed Sanchez during a secondary inspection. The interview was memorialized in a Form I-213 (Record of Deportable/Inadmissible Alien), which noted the following statements by Sanchez:

The government subsequently initiated removal proceedings, asserting that Sanchez violated § 212(a)(6)(E)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (a)(6)(E)(i), by being an alien who “knowingly has encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted,…