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Edgar Chavez-Reyes v. William Barr, 15-70607 (2020)

Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Number: 15-70607 Visitors: 10
Filed: Apr. 28, 2020
Latest Update: Apr. 28, 2020
Summary: FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION APR 28 2020 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT EDGAR CHAVEZ-REYES, AKA Walter No. 15-70607 Estrada-Espinoza, Agency No. A095-748-856 Petitioner, v. WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General, MEMORANDUM* Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted April 17, 2020** Pasadena, California Before: W. FLETCHER and LEE, Circuit Judges, and SETTLE,*** District Judge. Immigratio
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                                                                              FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION
                                                                               APR 28 2020
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                         MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                            U.S. COURT OF APPEALS


                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT


EDGAR CHAVEZ-REYES, AKA Walter                   No. 15-70607
Estrada-Espinoza,
                                                 Agency No. A095-748-856
              Petitioner,

 v.

WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General,               MEMORANDUM*

              Respondent.


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

                            Submitted April 17, 2020**
                               Pasadena, California

Before: W. FLETCHER and LEE, Circuit Judges, and SETTLE,*** District Judge.

      Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Edgar Chavez-Reyes

during a raid on the factory where he worked. He sought to suppress all evidence

      *
             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 Benjamin H. Settle, United States District Judge for
the Western District of Washington, sitting by designation.
obtained as a result of his detention at the factory and to terminate the removal

proceedings against him. The immigration judge denied relief, the Board of

Immigration Appeals dismissed his appeal, and he petitioned for review. We grant

the petition.

       We recently granted a petition seeking to suppress evidence from the same

workplace raid in Perez Cruz v. Barr, 
926 F.3d 1128
(9th Cir. 2019). We held that

ICE agents had “carr[ied] out preplanned mass detentions, interrogations, and

arrests at the factory, without individualized reasonable suspicion” in violation of 8

C.F.R. § 287.8(b)(2).
Id. at 1133.
Because compliance with 8 C.F.R.

§ 287.8(b)(2) is mandated by the Constitution, we held that the regulatory violation

was prejudicial and that the petitioner was “entitled to suppression of the evidence

gathered as a result of that violation.”
Id. at 1146.
       Our analysis in Perez Cruz controls this case. ICE agents detained Chavez-

Reyes in the same workplace raid under nearly identical circumstances. Chavez-

Reyes made the statements that the government contends gave rise to reasonable

suspicion to detain him only after he was unlawfully detained. On these facts,

suppression and termination are warranted. See
id. at 1145–46;
Sanchez v.

Sessions, 
904 F.3d 643
, 655 (9th Cir. 2018).




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      After we decided Perez Cruz, the government asked us to remand this case

so that it could determine in the first instance whether other, untainted record

evidence could independently establish Chavez-Reyes’s alienage. Remand is

unnecessary. The only other evidence the government points to here is a Form

WR-424, which merely restates information obtained from an arrest, and an entry

from the Mexican Unique Population Registry Code (“CURP”), which identifies a

person with Chavez-Reyes’s name and date of birth as a Mexican national. We

hold that the CURP entry is a fruit of the unlawful detention and is suppressible as

“evidence . . . pertaining to alienage.” Perez 
Cruz, 926 F.3d at 1136
(quoting

Lopez-Rodriguez v. Mukasey, 
536 F.3d 1012
, 1015 n.5 (9th Cir. 2008)); see
id. at 1146
(holding that a birth certificate obtained following unlawful detention should

have been suppressed). The government’s Motion to Remand (ECF No. 32) is

therefore DENIED.

      PETITION GRANTED.




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