NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JUN 18 2020 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 19-30094 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 3:18-cr-00024-JO-1 v. MEMORANDUM* JOSE SALAS-SANCHEZ, Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Robert E. Jones, District Judge, Presiding Submitted May 11, 2020** Portland, Oregon Before: BYBEE and VANDYKE, Circuit Judges, and CARDONE,*** District Judge. Jose Salas-Sanchez appeals his conviction for illegally reentering the * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). *** The Honorable Kathleen Cardone, United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, sitting by designation. United States after having been removed, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). This offense was predicated on a September 2011 reinstatement of a May 2011 expedited removal order. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 1294. Because the parties are familiar with the facts, we do not recite them here. The district court correctly denied Salas-Sanchez’s motion to dismiss the indictment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(d), a decision we review de novo. See United States v. Flores, 901 F.3d 1150, 1155 (9th Cir. 2018). We need not reach the question of whether Salas-Sanchez’s 2011 expedited removal proceedings violated his due process rights because Salas-Sanchez has failed to show prejudice. Id. at 1162 (citing United States v. Raya-Vaca, 771 F.3d 1195, 1206 (9th Cir. 2014)). In order to show prejudice, Salas-Sanchez must demonstrate that he had “‘plausible grounds for relief’ from the removal order.” Id. (quoting Raya-Vaca, 771 F.3d at 1205–07). Salas-Sanchez argues that he would have plausibly been granted relief in the form of permission to withdraw his application for admission. Withdrawal is discretionary, and the agency uses six factors to guide its exercise of that discretion. See id. In Salas-Sanchez’s case the factors are mixed but ultimately Salas-Sanchez has not met his burden to show plausibility of relief. See Raya-Vaca, 771 F.3d at 1206–07. First, there are no prior findings of inadmissibility as to Salas-Sanchez, 2 weighing in favor of plausibility of relief. See id. at 1208. Salas-Sanchez’s prior entry into the United States and the fact that he evaded lawful ports of entry in 2011 indicate both an intent to break the law and the seriousness of the violation, weighing against plausibility of relief. See id. Moreover, with regard to Salas- Sanchez’s ability to overcome inadmissibility, while Salas-Sanchez now explains he married a United States citizen in May 2011, he made no mention of the citizenship of his wife to the immigration officers upon his apprehension, and only provided his wife’s address in Mexico to the officers. Further, while Salas- Sanchez did inform the officers that his brother was living in the United States, he also told the officers that no petitions had been ...
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