Candido De Leon Gramajo v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Candido Nicodemo de Leon Gramajo and Heleodora Obispa de Leon, husband and wife, and natives and citizens of Guatemala, petition pro se for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying their applications for cancellation of removal, asylum, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We dismiss in part, and deny in part, the petition for review.

Petitioners contend that their three United States citizen children will experience the requisite hardship if they are forced to move to Guatemala, and therefore the BIA erred in denying their application for cancellation of removal. We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s discretionary determination that petitioners failed to show exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to their United States citizen children. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(2)(B); Mendez-Castro v. Mukasey, 552 F.3d 975, 979 (9th Cir.2009).

Petitioners general contention that their constitutional rights were violated does not raise a colorable claim. See Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 930 (9th Cir.2005).

Petitioners’ generalized contention in their opening brief that they…