Octavia Beltran-Tirado,petitioner v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Opinion by Judge CANBY; Dissent by Judge NOONAN.

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

Octavia Beltran-Tirado, a Mexican- national and citizen, lived in the United States for nineteen years using the name and Social Security number of a woman whose Social Security card Beltran apparently found on a bus. In 1991, Beltran was arrested and convicted of two crimes because she wrote her false Social Security number on an employment verification form in order to obtain employment. After she served her sentence, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) sought to deport her. Beltran then attempted to…