Fernandez-Cabrera

Fernandez-Cabrera v. Gonzales

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123 F. App'x 314
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitFebruary 22, 2005Nos. 03-72980California246 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM ***

Fernando Fernandez-Cabrera and Yazmin Andrade Peredo, husband and wife and natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) affirmance of an immigration judge’s denial of their applications for cancellation of removal. We dismiss in part and grant in part the petition for review, and remand for further proceedings.

We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s discretionary determination that petitioners failed to demonstrate “exceptional and extremely unusual hardship.” See Romero-Torres v. Ashcroft, 327 F.3d 887, 892 (9th Cir.2003). We do not consider whether petitioners established ten years of continuous physical presence because failure to establish hardship is dis-positive. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(l); Romero-Torres, 327 F.3d at 889 .

We also lack jurisdiction over petitioners’ contention that the agency applied an incorrect legal standard in determining hardship because it is not a colorable due process claim. See Sanchez-Cruz v. INS, 255 F.3d 775, 779 (9th Cir.2001).

The BIA failed to consider petitioners’ contention that the IJ’s interruption of their testimony violated their due process rights. We remand so…

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