SANCHEZ-VELASCO v. HOLDER

No. 09-2131.

593 F.3d 733 (2010)

Marco SANCHEZ-VELASCO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: January 20, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy E. Wichmer, St. Louis, MO, for Petitioner.

Jennifer Paisner Williams, U.S. DOJ, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before MURPHY and BYE, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.


MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Marco Sanchez-Velasco petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming the immigration judge's (IJ's) denial of his application for cancellation of removal on the basis that he failed to prove that he had been continuously physically present in the United States for ten years, as required under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(1)(A). Sanchez-Velasco argues that the IJ held him to an impermissibly high burden of...

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