Quang Ly Tran v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

GUY, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner seeks review of a decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ordering that petitioner, Quang Ly Tran, an ethnic Chinese from Vietnam, be removed to Vietnam. The BIA reversed the decision of the immigration judge (IJ), who had found Tran removable because he had been convicted of an aggravated felony, but deferred his deportation because Tran qualified for protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In two appeals consolidated for our review, Tran argues that the BIA erred by retroactively applying the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant…