Court Opinion

ID: 8469925
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-05 11:39:06.292747+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:49:17.429302
License: Public Domain

MEMORANDUM **
Juan Angulo Cervantes, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision finding him removable under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo the BIA’s determinations that a conviction is a controlled substance offense rendering an alien removable under § 1227 and that a conviction is an aggravated felony. Rendon v. Mukasey, 520 F.3d 967, 971 (9th Cir.2008). We deny the petition for review.
The BIA did not err in finding Angulo Cervantes removable because his state conviction for conspiracy to possess cocaine for sale has an equivalent federal offense for conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C. § 846, and the judicially noticeable conviction documents in the record reveal that the controlled substance at issue was cocaine. See Renteria-Morales v. Mukasey, 551 F.3d 1076, 1084 (9th Cir.2008) (stating that under modified categorical approach, court may look to judgment and charging document).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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