Sandoval

Sandoval v. Holder

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473 F. App'x 719
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitMay 25, 201208-70332California295 words

Opinion

Opinion

MEMORANDUM

Martin Sandoval, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review de novo due process challenges, Munoz v. Ashcroft, 339 F.3d 950, 955 (9th Cir.2003), and we dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s discretionary determination that Sandoval failed to show exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to his qualifying relatives. See Mendez-Castro v. Mukasey, 552 F.3d 975, 978 (9th Cir.2009). Sandoval’s contentions that the IJ violated his due process rights by discounting some of his evidence of hardship and by failing to consider the evidence in the aggregate are not supported by the record and do not amount to colorable constitutional claims. See id. (court lacks jurisdiction over abuse of discretion challenges cloaked as constitutional questions).

Sandoval’s right to due process was not violated when the IJ permitted his former counsel to withdraw his application for asylum in favor of…

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