Case Name: Juan Carlos GARCIA-AYALA, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-03-22
Citations: 642 F. App'x 789
Docket Number: No. 13-71239
Parties: Juan Carlos GARCIA-AYALA, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: GOODWIN, LEAVY, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 642
Pages: 789–790

Head Matter:
Juan Carlos GARCIA-AYALA, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 13-71239.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 15, 2016.
Filed March 22, 2016.
Alan Michael Anzarouth, San Diego, CA, for Petitioner.
Oil, Claire Workman, Senior Litigation Counsel, 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: GOODWIN, LEAVY, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Juan Carlos Garcia-Ayala, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence factual determinations, and we review de novo questions of law. Najmabadi v. Holder, 597 F.3d 983, 986 (9th Cir.2010). We deny the petition for review.
Garcia-Ayala is statutorily barred from establishing good moral character in order to qualify for cancellation of removal, where substantial evidence supports the BIA's determination that he engaged in an affirmative act in support of alien smuggling. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101(f)(3), 1182(a)(6)(E)(R, 1229b(b)(l)(B); Urzua Covarrubias v. Gonzales, 487 F.3d 742, 747-49 (9th Cir.2007) (alien smuggling finding supported by substantial evidence where the petitioner's collecting of money and payment to a smuggler upon delivery of his brother provided "an affirmative act of help, assistance, or encouragement" (citation and quotation marks omitted)).
Garcia-Ayala's contention that the BIA failed to provide adequate reasoning in making the smuggling determination is without merit. See Najmabadi, 597 F.3d at 990 ("What is required is merely that [the agency] consider the issues raised, and announce its decision in terms sufficient to enable a reviewing court to perceive that it has heard and thought and not merely reacted." (citation and quotation marks omitted)).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R, 36-3.