NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FILED
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
FEB 17 2016
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
VICTOR MANUEL MUNOZ PERALES, No. 11-73217
Petitioner, Agency No. A017-907-274
v.
MEMORANDUM*
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted February 12, 2016**
Pasadena, California
Before: KLEINFELD, McKEOWN, and IKUTA, Circuit Judges.
Victor Munoz Perales appeals the BIA’s decision affirming the IJ’s order of
removal and holding that he did not derive United States citizenship from his
father. The relevant decision for review, however, is the district court’s grant of
summary judgment in favor of the government. 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(5)(B); see
*
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).
Mondaca-Vega v. Holder, 718 F.3d 1075, 1076 & n.1 (9th Cir. 2013). We have
jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 and 28 U.S.C. § 1291.
Because Munoz Perales did not challenge the district court’s order in his
briefs on appeal, he has waived any challenge to its determination that he is not a
derivative citizen. Fed. R. App. P. 28(a); see Greenwood v. FAA, 28 F.3d 971, 977
(9th Cir. 1994).
Even if Munoz Perales had challenged the relevant decision, the district
court did not err in granting summary judgment in favor of the government. The
district court did not abuse its discretion in ruling that the statements in Munoz
Perales’s testimony and the deposition of his brother indicating that their father
resided in the United States between 1929 and 1950 were inadmissible as hearsay
and for lack of personal knowledge. Fed. R. Evid. 602, 801(c), 802. Because no
other admissible evidence supported Munoz Perales’s claim, see Orr v. Bank of
Am., NT & SA, 285 F.3d 764, 773 (9th Cir. 2002), and the government adduced
evidence that Munoz Perales’s father resided in Mexico during the relevant period,
Munoz Perales failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact that his father resided
in the United States for five years after turning 16 in 1929. See 8 U.S.C. § 601(g)
(1940).
PETITION DENIED.