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MEJIA-ORELLANA v. GONZALES

No. 06-2454.

502 F.3d 13 (2007)

Jose Lorenzo MEJIA-ORELLANA, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 6, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose A. Espinosa, on brief, for petitioner.

Melissa S. Liebman, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, and Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director, on brief, for respondent.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Jose Lorenzo Mejia-Orellana, a native and citizen of Honduras, petitions for review of a final order of removal of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which adopted and affirmed the decision of an Immigration Judge (IJ).

The BIA affirmed the IJ's decision that Mejia-Orellana was ineligible for a cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a) because he acquired his lawful permanent resident status by fraud or misrepresentation...

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