Orendain

Orendain v. Holder

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485 F. App'x 268
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOctober 15, 2012No. 10-71831California274 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Ernesto Martinez Orendain and Rosa Isela Martinez, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) removal order. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review de novo questions of law. Reyes v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 592, 595 (9th Cir.2004). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s discretionary determination that petitioners failed to show exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to a qualifying relative. See Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 929 (9th Cir.2005). Petitioners’ contention that the agency violated due process by not properly analyzing their evidence of hardship is not supported by the record and does not amount to a colorable constitutional claim. See id. at 930 (“[TJraditional abuse of discretion challenges recast as alleged due process violations do not constitute colorable constitutional claims that would invoke our jurisdiction.”).

*269 The BIA properly concluded that petitioners failed to establish that their former counsel had provided ineffective…

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