Bahena
Bahena v. Holder
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Erasmo Bahena and Nohemi Martinez-Sandoval, husband and wife and natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“U”) decision denying Bahena’s application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence findings of fact, Urzua Covarrubias v. Gonzales, 487 F.3d 742, 744 (9th Cir.2007), and we deny the petition for review.
After the BIA rendered its decision in this case, an en banc panel of this court concluded that the family unity waiver of inadmissibility under 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (d)(ll) is not available to aliens seeking to establish good moral character for the purposes of cancellation of removal. See Sanchez v. Holder, 560 F.3d 1028, 1032 (9th Cir.2009) (en banc); see also 8 U.S.C. §§ 1229b(b)(l)(B), 1101(f)(3). Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that Bahena was ineligible for cancellation of removal as an alien smuggler where he knowingly “provided some form of affirmative assistance to the illegally entering alien.” Altamirano v. Gonzales, 427 F.3d 586, 592 (9th Cir.2005).