Yin Fen FLORES, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent

CHOY, Circuit Judge:

Yin Fen Flores, a.k.a. Eileen York, a native and citizen of Taiwan, appeals the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of Flores’s request for suspension of deportation pursuant to section 244(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1254(a)(1). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a).

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Flores first came to the United States in 1980. She married an American citizen, Ernest Marvin Flores, and on the basis of that marriage, was granted permanent resident status in 1981. On…