Osoria-Flores

Osoria-Flores v. Ashcroft

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92 F. App'x 579
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 6, 2004No. 03-70085California279 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Pedro Osoria-Flores, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeal’s (“BIA”) order summarily affirming without opinion under 8 C.F.R. § 3.1 (e)(4), an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction to review constitutional claims, even when those claims address a discretionary decision. Ramirez-Perez v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 1001, 1004 (9th Cir.2003). We review de novo the due process challenge, Padilla v. Ashcroft, 334 F.3d 921, 923 (9th Cir. 2003), and we deny the petition in part and dismiss it in part.

Osoria-Flores contends that due process requires his case to be remanded to the IJ to permit him to present evidence under the standard for “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship” announced in Matter of Monreal-Aguinaga, 23 I & N Dec. 56 (BIA 2001), after the immigration judge’s decision in 2000. This contention fails because petitioner has not demonstrated that the IJ’s interpretation of hardship falls outside of the broad range authorized by statute. See Ramirez-Perez, 336 F.3d at 1006-07 .

We lack jurisdiction to review whether the BIA improperly streamlined…

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