Opinion ID: 867971
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Agent Braulio Garza’s Testimony

Text: Two border patrol agents also testified at the hearing. The signature of the first, Braulio Garza, appears on the I-213 and I-826 forms dated August 30, 2007. Garza acknowledged that he did not have any specific memory of the encounter with RosarioMijangos or of completing the forms but testified that he must have filled them out because he recognized his own signature. Garza said that his job in August 2007 was to respond to agents who had detained individuals such as Rosario-Mijangos, and he testified to his usual practices during that time. Garza testified that, after responding to the agent who had detained RosarioMijangos, he would have brought Rosario-Mijangos back to the station and interviewed him individually to obtain biographical information, which he would then have used to complete the Form I-213. Garza explained that Rosario-Mijangos must have told him he was single, because Garza entered information to that effect on the Form I-213. Garza also noted that he must have informed Rosario-Mijangos that he could make a phone call if he wanted to, because Garza had placed his initials and the date next to a statement on the Form I-213 that read, “Alien has been advised of communication privileges.” After the Form I-213 was completed, Garza testified, he would have fingerprinted and photographed Rosario-Mijangos and entered his information into IDENT, a computer database operated by the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), before moving on to complete the Form I-826, which he referred to as “the voluntary return form.” 7 Garza testified that it was his standard practice in August 2007 to ask any alien completing a Form I-826 if he wanted “to take a voluntary return back to his country so that he could leave immediately, or if he would want a hearing before an Immigration