Charles Mazariegos-Guillen v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Charles Harvey Mazariegos-Guillen, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions pro se for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying his application for cancellation of removal. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We dismiss the petition for review.

Petitioner contends that his United States citizen child will experience the requisite hardship if petitioner is returned to Guatemala, and therefore the BIA erred in denying his application for cancellation of removal. Specifically, petitioner contends that the immigration judge erred: by concluding that petitioner would be able to find employment upon his return to Guatemala; by not giving sufficient weight to the economic and financial hardship caused by the heart condition of the mother of petitioner’s United States citizen child; and by not properly considering the effect of the emotional and psychological hardship to the child if petitioner is deported. Petitioner’s contentions challenge the agency’s hardship determination, and we lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s discretionary determination that petitioner failed to show exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to his…