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RAGASA v. HOLDER

No. 12-72262.

752 F.3d 1173 (2014)

Crisanto Carino RAGASA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 28, 2014.

Amended June 4, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Cora Avinante (argued), Law Office of M. Cora Avinante, Honolulu, HI, for Petitioner.

Theodore William Atkinson (argued), Trial Attorney; Stuart F. Delery , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Ernesto H. Molina , Assistant Director; S. Nicole Nardone , Trial Attorney, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before: MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

Crisanto Ragasa was born in the Philippines in 1966 to two married Filipino citizens (his "biological parents"). At the age of fourteen, he immigrated to the United States and was adopted by his uncle and aunt (his "adoptive parents"), both naturalized U.S. citizens. Years later in 2008, Ragasa was convicted in Hawaii state court for "Attempted Promoting a Dangerous Drug in the First Degree," in violation of Haw.Rev.Stat....

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