Sun Hee Yoo v. Holder

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340 F. App'x 387
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJuly 31, 2009No. 06-72721California217 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Sun Hee Yoo and her son, Young Woo Suh, .natives and citizens of South Korea, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s order of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny the petition.

We reject petitioners’ contention that the government failed to establish remova-bility by clear and convincing evidence, because petitioners conceded removability. See Shin v. Mukasey, 547 F.3d 1019, 1024 (9th Cir.2008).

We also reject petitioners’ contention that the government should be equitably estopped from ordering their removal. Although a government employee, Leland Sustaire, issued Yoo’s fraudulent alien registration card (Suh was a derivative beneficiary), the record shows Yoo was not “ignorant of the true facts” when she procured the card, id. at 1025 , and, “[i]n any event, estoppel against the government is unavailable where petitioners have not lost any rights to which they were entitled.” Sulit v. Schiltgen, 213 F.3d 449, 454 (9th Cir.2000).

Finally, we find no defects amounting to a due process violation. See Shin, 547 F.3d at 1024-25 ; Hong v. Mukasey, 518 F.3d…

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