Case Explained: HECTOR FUENTES-RAMOS V. TODD BLANCHE

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Filed: 2026-07-23 The Ninth Circuit denied the petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order affirming the Immigration Judge’s finding of removability and denying Hector Fuentes-Ramos’s applications for withholding of removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture, and cancellation of removal and adjustment of status. The court held that Fuentes-Ramos is ineligible for cancellation of removal because his conviction under Oregon Revised Statutes § 163.160(1)(a), (3)(c) constitutes a “crime of child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment” under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(E)(i). Relying on the precedent set in *Diaz-Boyzo v. Blanche*, the court determined that the Oregon statute is divisible and specifically describes a crime of child abuse, rejecting Fuentes-Ramos’s arguments based on *State v. Yong* and *State v. Glaspey* which the court found did not establish divisibility or alter the statutory interpretation regarding harm to children. Additionally, the court ruled that the lack of hearing date-and-time information in the Notice to Appear was not a jurisdictional defect but merely a claims-processing rule under 8 C.F.R. § 1003.18(b) that was cured by subsequent notice provided to the petitioner. As a result, Fuentes-Ramos remains subject to removal proceedings and is barred from the requested forms of relief. Do It For The Case Law is a news reporting service. Nothing in this episode constitutes legal advice.