Herrera

MEMORANDUM **

Alma Delia Saldana Herrera, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary affirmance of an immigration judge’s denial of her application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We grant the petition and remand for further proceedings.

Petitioner contends that the IJ erred as a matter of law in concluding that she failed to satisfy the continuous physical presence requirement under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(1)(A). Petitioner testified that she was apprehended by immigration authorities and returned to Mexico in 1997. The IJ concluded that the apprehension and return constituted a break in petitioner’s continuous physical presence such that she failed to meet the requisite ten-years before issuance of the Notice to Appear.

We recently held that the fact that an alien is turned around at the border, even where the alien is fingerprinted and information about his attempted entry is entered into the government’s computer database, does not in and of itself interrupt the continuity of his physical presence in the United States. See Tapia v. Gonzales, 430 F.3d 997, 1002-1004 (9th…