Eduardo Leon-Flores v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Eduardo Leon-Flores, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order sustaining the government’s appeal from the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision granting a waiver of inadmissibility under former section 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (c) (repealed 1996). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review de novo questions of law and constitutional claims, Figueroa v. Mulcasey, 543 F.3d 487, 491 (9th Cir.2008), and we dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s discretionary denial of Leon-Flores’ application for relief under section 212(c), see 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(2)(B)(ii) and Vargas-Hernandez v. Gonzales, 497 F.3d 919, 923 (9th Cir.2007) (“Discretionary decisions, including whether or not to grant § 212(c) relief, are not renewable.”), and Leon-Flores has not raised a colorable due process challenge to the discretionary determination, see Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 930 (9th Cir.2005). His contentions that the BIA applied an incorrect legal standard in adjudicating his application for section 212(c)…