Mboussi-Ona

MEMORANDUM **

Jean Polh Mboussi-Ona petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order finding that Mboussi-Ona is removable and ineligible for cancellation of removal. We deny the petition on both grounds that Mboussi-Ona presents.

Mboussi-Ona argues that the IJ committed a host of due process errors. See, e.g., Agyeman v. INS, 296 F.3d 871, 876-77 (9th Cir.2002); Campos-Sanchez v. INS, 164 F.3d 448, 450 (9th Cir.1999). Mboussi-Ona claims that the IJ failed to act as a neutral factfinder and failed to assist him as a pro se litigant by not ensuring that he understood the relief available or the evidence needed to prove his claims, and by not helping him develop the record. None of these arguments is convincing. The IJ adequately informed *668 Mboussi-Ona of his rights and the options for relief he could pursue and helped him develop the record.

Mboussi-Ona also argues that because his two convictions in 1997 for grand theft under Cal.Penal Code §§ 484 and 487.1 (currently § 487(a)) were expunged under Cal.Penal Code § 1203.4 they do not constitute “convictions” for the purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (a)(2);…