Case Name: Venancio VALDOVINOS-CORONA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-10-06
Citations: 399 F. App'x 214
Docket Number: No. 06-73092
Parties: Venancio VALDOVINOS-CORONA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: O’SCANNLAIN, FISHER and GOULD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 399
Pages: 214–215

Head Matter:
Venancio VALDOVINOS-CORONA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 06-73092.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Sept. 1, 2010.
Filed Oct. 6, 2010.
Steven A. Guilin, Escondido, CA, for Petitioner.
CAS-District Counsel, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Diego, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, John D. Williams, Esq., Jeffrey L. Menkin, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: O’SCANNLAIN, FISHER and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
The Immigration Judge ("13") found Valdovinos inadmissible under section 212(a)(6)(E)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(E)(i), for knowingly encouraging, inducing, assisting, abetting, or aiding a minor child to enter or to try to enter the United States in violation of law. After the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirmed the IJ's decision, Valdovinos filed a motion to reconsider in light of Altamirano v. Gonzales, 427 F.3d 586 (9th Cir.2005), which clarified that an alien is inadmissible under section 212(a)(6)(E)(i) only if he engages in "an affirmative act of help, assistance, or encouragement." Id. at 592. The BIA denied the motion.
Because Valdovinos's petition for review is timely only with respect to the BIA's denial of his motion to reconsider, our jurisdiction is limited to reviewing that order. See Stone v. INS, 514 U.S. 386, 405-06, 115 S.Ct. 1537, 131 L.Ed.2d 465 (1995); Membreno v. Gonzales, 425 F.3d 1227, 1229 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc). We review the BIA's denial of a motion to reconsider for abuse of discretion. See Morales Apolinar v. Mukasey, 514 F.3d 893, 895 (9th Cir.2008).
The BIA properly concluded that by providing his car to his domestic partner's sister as a "favor," with the intent that she use it to bring the child into the country illegally, Valdovinos acted affirmatively to assist alien smuggling under section 212(a)(6)(E)(i). See Aguilar Gonzalez v. Mukasey, 534 F.3d 1204, 1208 (9th Cir.2008) (noting Altamirano's reliance on the "well-established meaning of aiding and abetting in the criminal context, which requires the individual to associate himself with the venture, that he participate in it as in something that he wishes to bring about, that he seek by his action to make it succeed" (internal quotation marks omitted)). Accordingly, the BIA did not abuse its discretion by denying Valdovinos's motion to reconsider.
PETITION DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.