Sanchez-Rodriguez

MEMORANDUM ***

Sanchez-Rodriguez petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeal’s (“BIA”) order finding her removable under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (“IIRI-RA”). Petitioner asserts that application to her of rules promulgated under the IIRIRA was impermissibly retroactive, and that the statute violates equal protection. Finally, Sanchez-Rodriguez argues that the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997 (“NA-CARA”) § 203, which permits certain aliens to apply for special rule cancellation of removal in accordance with the more lenient terms of pre-IIRIRA suspension of deportation law, violates equal protection by making distinctions between nationalities.

Because Jimenez-Angeles v. Ashcroft, 291 F.3d 594 (9th Cir.2002), Hernandez-Mezquita v. Ashcroft, 293 F.3d 1161 (9th Cir.2002), and Ram v. INS, 243 F.3d 510 (9th Cir.2001), foreclose Sanchez-Rodriguez’ claims, we deny her petition for review.

In Jimenez-Angeles we conducted a detailed analysis of a similar claim, measured against the Supreme Court’s test under INS v. St. Cyr, 533 U.S. 289 , 121 S.Ct. 2271 , 150 L.Ed.2d 347 (2001). The permanent rules…