Ramos-Miranda

MEMORANDUM ***

Francisco Ramos-Miranda (“Ramos”), a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order adopting and affirming an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order finding him removable and granting the government’s motion to pretermit his application for cancellation of removal. To the extent we have jurisdiction, it is pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 .

Ramos was charged with removability for two reasons: he was convicted of a crime of domestic violence in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (a)(2)(E)(i), and he overstayed his visa in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (a)(1)(B). Before the IJ, Ramos conceded that he had overstayed his visa. He argued that his 2002 conviction in Arizona for unlawful imprisonment in violation of Arizona Revised Statute § 13-1308 did not constitute a crime of domestic violence within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (a)(2)(E)®. The IJ disagreed. The IJ also granted the government’s motion to pretermit Ramos’s application for cancellation of removal because, in light of his 2002 conviction, Ramos was not a person of good moral character. Ramos appealed to the BIA, but in his appeal, he did not challenge the good moral…