United States Fifth Circuit

A petition for review of a BIA order, which found petitioner removable and denied a request for a waiver of removal, is denied over claims that: 1) Texas's unauthorized use of a motor vehicle offense does not constitute a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. section 16(b); and 2) that he was entitled to seek discretionary relief pursuant to former section 212(c) of the INA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/12/2006
• Published 12/13/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before DeMOSS, STEWART and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gino Mario Mesa, Mesa & Yeverino, Houston, TX, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Grimes, Shelley R. Goad, Thomas Ward Hussey, Dir., John Clifford Cunningham, U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL, Civ. Lit., Washington, DC, Caryl G. Thompson, U.S. INS, Attn: Joe A. Aguilar, New Orleans, LA, Sharon A. Hudson, U.S. Citizenship & Imm. Services, Houston, TX, for Respondent.