Flores-Quezada

MEMORANDUM **

Salvador Flores-Quezada, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of a final order of removal issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming an immigration judge’s order denying his request for suspension of deportation under Section 244(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1254 (a) (1994) (repealed).

Under the “transitional rules” of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (“IIRIRA”), 1 we lack jurisdiction to review the denial of the request for suspension of deportation because that decision was based on a discretionary determination that Flores-Quezada failed to establish the requisite extreme hardship. Kalaw v. INS, 133 F.3d 1147, 1149-50 (9th Cir. 1997).

Flores-Quezada’s contention that the Board’s failure to articulate reasons for its decision violated his right to due process is foreclosed by Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 851 (9th Cir.2003) (holding that the Board’s affirmance of an immigra *203 tion judge’s decision without issuing an opinion does not violate due process).

Flores-Quezada’s contention that he is entitled to relief because his removal would violate the federal…