Court Opinion

ID: 9492884
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:52:41.692379+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:55:32.408246
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BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
The record is unequivocal that the government raised exhaustion before the district court exclusively in connection with the 1997 reinstatement proceedings. It did not raise failure to exhaust administrative remedies in connection with Hinojosa’s 1995 deportation. Consequently, there is no factual record from which this court may evaluate whether Hinojosa knowingly and intelligently decided not to pursue administrative review of his deportation order during the eight days he was detained pending deportation in 1995. The government waived the exhaustion issue when it failed to raise it in a manner sufficient to create an adequate record for appellate review.
On the merits, I would hold that the district court erred in finding that the government satisfied the requirements of due process when it failed to send notice to the last address that Hinojosa reported to the INS. Due process requires notice “reasonably calculated to ensure that notice reaches the alien.” Farhoud v. INS, 122 F.3d 794, 796 (9th Cir.1997) (quotations omitted). Notice reasonably calculated to reach Hinojosa should have been sent to his last reported address at Muldoon Road, and not the Thirteenth Avenue Address from which he had previously corresponded with the OIJ.
The government’s position is not saved by regulations requiring address changes to be reported solely to the OIJ. See 8 C.F.R. § 3.15(c)(2) (1995). Congress has commanded the Attorney General to establish a central recording system for address changes provided by aliens. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252b(c)(l) (Supp. V 1993) (repealed 1996); 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(3) (Supp. II 1996). The point.of a central system is to ensure that notice will be sent to the last reported address of which the government is aware. That point is entirely defeated when the government refuses to acknowledge any address change not reported to a single designated subagency.
It is true that Hinojosa had again moved from his most recently provided address at Muldoon Road when notice of the deportation hearing should have been sent there. As a result, it may be the case that failure to send notice to his last-reported address was harmless, because Hinojosa would not have received notice there either. I would remand this intrinsically factual issue to the district court.