Tadeo-Hernandez

Tadeo-Hernandez v. Gonzales

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163 F. App'x 568
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJanuary 18, 2006No. 05-71383California219 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Benjamin Tadeo-Hernandez and Ruth Noemi Gastelum-Tadeo, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decisions adopting and affirming an immigration judge’s decision denying their applications for cancellation of removal.

We lack jurisdiction to entertain this petition for review because the Board’s discretionary determination that petitioners failed to establish exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to their United States citizen children is unreviewable. 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(2)(B)(i); Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 929-30 (9th Cir.2005). Petitioners’ contention that the immigration judge denied them due process, by finding their testimony and documentation insufficient to establish the requisite exceptional and extremely unusual hardship, is an attempt to recast an abuse-of-discretion argument as a due-process claim; it is not a colorable constitutional claim over which we have jurisdiction. Id., at 930 .

*569 PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

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