Mendoza

Mendoza v. Gonzales

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194 F. App'x 439
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJuly 31, 2006No. 05-72916California290 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Armando Jimenez Mendoza and Maria Estela Jimenez, husband and wife, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying their motion to reopen removal proceedings. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen. See Iturribarria v. INS, 321 F.3d 889, 894 (9th Cir.2003). We grant the petition for review and remand for further proceedings.

The BIA denied the motion to reopen because it found that the evidence presented with Petitioners’ motion to reopen regarding their son’s learning deficiency was previously available and could have been discovered or presented at the former hearing. As the Respondent concedes, the BIA incorrectly determined that the prof-erred evidence concerned Petitioners’ eldest son, whose learning difficulties were raised at the prior hearing, when, in fact, it pertained to their youngest son, for whom no such evidence was presented at the prior hearing. The BIA’s failure to conduct a careful review of the evidence constitutes an abuse of discretion. See Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 792-93 (9th Cir.2005) (holding…

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