MALIK NKRUMAN WELCH, AKA Kahlil Kevin Felix, AKA Khalil Felix, AKA Simon Samuel, AKA… v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
MALIK NKRUMAN WELCH, AKA
Kahlil Kevin Felix, AKA Khalil Felix,
AKA Simon Samuel, AKA Samuels
Simon, AKA Malik Welch, AKA Malik N.
Welch,
Petitioner,
v.
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 14-70071
Agency No. A205-718-793
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted December 9, 2015**
Before: WALLACE, RAWLINSON, and IKUTA, Circuit Judges.
Malik Nkruman Welch, a native and citizen of Belize, petitions for review of
the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an
FILED
DEC 15 2015
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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immigration judge’s decision denying his application for cancellation of removal.
We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law,
Carrillo v. Holder, 781 F.3d 1155, 1157 (9th Cir. 2015), and deny the petition for
review.
The BIA correctly concluded that Welch’s conviction under California Penal
Code § 273.5(a) (2002) is a crime of domestic violence under 8 U.S.C.
§ 1227(a)(2)(E)(i). See id. at 1157-60 (holding that the version of § 273.5(a),
effective from 2001 through 2003, is categorically a crime of domestic violence,
and rejecting petitioner’s claim that the scope of potential victims encompassed by
the California provision is broader than the scope of the federal provision).
Accordingly, the agency correctly concluded that Welch is ineligible for
cancellation of removal. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1229b(b)(1)(C), 1227(a)(2)(E)(i).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
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