Pablo Dominguez-Salmeron v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Pablo Dominguez-Salmeron, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“U”) decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the agency’s continuous physical presence determination, Vera-Villegas v. INS, 330 F.3d 1222, 1230 (9th Cir.2003), and we dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to consider Dominguez-Salmeron’s contention that the IJ failed to make an explicit adverse credibility determination because Dominguez-Sal-meron did not exhaust this contention before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004).

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s continuous physical presence determination because the record does not compel the conclusion that Dominguez-Salmeron was present in the United States from January 15, 1992 to January 15, 2002. See Pedro-Mateo v. INS, 224 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.2000) (a contrary result is not compelled “when it is possible to draw two inconsistent conclusions from the…