Lopez-Campos

Lopez-Campos v. Gonzales

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152 F. App'x 686
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitNovember 14, 2005No. 04-74233California291 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Elisa Betsab Lopez-Campos, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review *687 of a Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) order summarily affirming without opinion an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) removal order. To the extent we have jurisdiction, it is pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we review questions of law de novo. Shivaraman v. Ashcroft, 360 F.3d 1142, 1145 (9th Cir.2004). We dismiss the petition for review in part and deny it in part.

We lack jurisdiction to review Lopez-Campos’s contention that she did not have “the required mens rea” to sustain her ground of removability, as she faded to exhaust this contention in her appeal to the BIA. See Zara v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 927, 931 (9th Cir.2004).

As the IJ concluded, Lopez-Campos is ineligible for a waiver of inadmissibility under 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (a)(6)(E)(iii), because the alien she was charged with smuggling was not her spouse or another qualifying relative. See 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (d)(ll) (eligibility for the waiver applies “if the alien has encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided only an individual who at the time of such action was the alien’s spouse, parent, son, or daughter (and no other…

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