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Date Created: 2014-10-24 21:01:06.999532+00
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FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                               OCT 24 2014

                                                                          MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                          U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JIOVANI CERDE REYES,                             No. 10-70969

              Petitioner,                        Agency No. A087-756-191

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM*
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,

              Respondent.

                     On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                         Board of Immigration Appeals

                    Argued and Submitted September 11, 2014
                            San Francisco, California

Before: WALLACE, SCHROEDER, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

       Jiovani Cerde Reyes, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of

the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (Board) order dismissing his appeal. Cerde

Reyes appealed to the Board from an immigration judge’s (IJ) removal order,

which was based upon Cerde Reyes’s admissions and concessions before the IJ.

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252; we review de novo, Perez-Mejia v.

Holder, 663 F.3d 403, 409 (9th Cir. 2011); and we deny the petition.

      The Board did not err in dismissing Cerde Reyes’s appeal because Reyes

admitted the factual allegations contained in his Notice to Appear and conceded he

was removable on the basis of his Arizona conviction for possession of a forgery

device, a crime which Cerde Reyes conceded—and the IJ correctly determined,

based on an independent review of the statute—was categorically a crime

involving moral turpitude. “[I]f at the . . . pleading stage an alien . . . makes

admissions of fact or concedes removability, and the IJ accepts them, no further

evidence concerning the issues of fact admitted or law conceded is necessary.” Id.

at 414. And if “the immigration judge is satisfied that no issues of law or fact

remain, the immigration judge may determine that removability as charged has

been established by the admissions of the respondent.” Id. at 416 (citing 8 C.F.R. §

1240.10(c)).

      PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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