Opinion
No. 05-77250.
Submitted December 4, 2006. Withdrawn from Submission December 8, 2006. Resubmitted July 9, 2007.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed.R.App.P. 34(a)(2).
Filed July 13, 2007.
John M. Pope, Esq., Stender Pope, PC, Phoenix, AZ, for Petitioner.
Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Counsel, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, District Counsel, Office of the District Chief Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Phoenix, AZ, James E. Grimes, Esq., William C. Minick, Esq., U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Agency No. A92-964-630.
MEMORANDUM
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Petitioner Carlos Leonidas Sosa seeks review of the decision of an Immigration Judge finding him ineligible for former INA § 212(c) relief. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we deny the petition. Because the ground of deportability sustained against Sosa lacks a statutory counterpart in the grounds of inadmissibility, § 212(c) relief was unavailable. In re Blake, 23 I. N. Dec. 722 (BIA 2005). In Abebe v. Gonzales, 493 F.3d 1092, No. 05-76201, 2007 WL 1965165 (9th Cir. July 9, 2007), we rejected the objections to the Blake rule that are raised in Sosa's petition.