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Jose Luis PAZARIN-CASTREJON, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 09-73002.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted May 24, 2011.
    
    Filed June 6, 2011.
    Benjamin Wiesinger, Pope & Associates, PC, Phoenix, AZ, for Petitioner.
    
      OIL, Mark Christopher Walters, Esquire, Assistant Director, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: PREGERSON, THOMAS, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. 
        See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Jose Luis Pazarin-Castrejon, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) removal order. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law, Cazarez-Gutierrez v. Ashcroft, 382 F.3d 905, 909 (9th Cir.2004), and we deny the petition for review.

The IJ properly concluded that Pazarin-Castrejon’s conviction for violating California Health and Safety Code § 11378 is an aggravated felony under 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B). See Rendon v. Mukasey, 520 F.3d 967, 976 (9th Cir.2008) (“[P]ossession of a controlled substance with the intent to sell contains a trafficking element and is an aggravated felony.”); see also United States v. Valle-Montalbo, 474 F.3d 1197, 1201 (9th Cir.2007) (section 11378 criminalizes only possession of a controlled substance with the intent to sell).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.