Silva Gonzalez v. Gonzales
Opinion
lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Jose De Jesus Silva Gonalez and Raquel Flores De Silva, husband and wife and natives and citizens of Mexico, petition pro se for review of the decisions of the Board *673 of Immigration Appeals affirming without opinion the results of an immigration judge’s denial of them application for cancellation of removal.
We lack jurisdiction to review the immigration judge’s discretionary determination that petitioners failed to establish the requisite exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to a qualifying relative. 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(2)(B)(i); Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 929-30 (9th Cir .2005).
Petitioners’ equal protection challenge to the nationality-based distinctions in the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (“NACARA”), which permits aliens from certain countries to apply for special rule cancellation of removal in accordance with the more lenient terms of pre-IIRIRA 1 suspension-of-deportation law, lacks merit. See Jimenez-Angeles v. Ashcroft, 291 F.3d 594, 603 (9th Cir.2002) (rejecting equal protection challenge to NACARA’s favorable treatment of aliens from certain war-ravaged countries).