Cruz-Cegueda

Cruz-Cegueda v. Holder

Good Law
311 F. App'x 986
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitFebruary 19, 2009No. 08-71405California602 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

*987 MEMORANDUM **

This is a petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision denying petitioner’s motion to reopen removal proceedings.

We review the BIA’s ruling on a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion. Perez v. Mukasey, 516 F.3d 770, 773 (9th Cir.2008).

To the extent petitioner seeks review of the BIA’s determination that petitioner failed to establish prima facie eligibility for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture, we have reviewed the record and we grant the respondent’s motion for summary disposition because the questions raised by this petition for review are so insubstantial as not to require further argument. See United States v. Hooton, 693 F.2d 857, 858 (9th Cir.1982) (per curiam) (stating standard).

To the extent petitioner seeks review of the BIA’s determination that petitioner failed to establish prima facie eligibility for cancellation of removal, we grant respondent’s motion to dismiss this petition for review for lack of jurisdiction. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(2)(B)(i); Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 601 (9th Cir.2006) (concluding that the court lacks jurisdiction to review the…

Dissenting Opinion

Pregerson, J.

dissenting:

I dissent. This is but one of a multitude of similar sad cases by which our government’s deportation of undocumented parents results in the deportation of their American-born citizen children, and effectively denies those children their birthrights. See Cerrillo-Perez v. INS, 809 F.2d 1419, 1426-27 (9th Cir.1987) (Requiring the government to conduct individualized analyses of hardships to U.S. citizen children). Our government’s conduct forces U.S. citizen children to accept de facto expulsion from their native land or give up them constitutionally protected right to remain with their parents. See, e.g., Moore v. City of E. Cleveland, 431 U.S. 494, 503-05 , 97 S.Ct. 1932 , 52 L.Ed.2d 531 (1977) (plurality opinion) (“Our decisions establish that the Constitution protects the sanctity of the family precisely because the institution of the family is deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.”); Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645, 651 , 92 S.Ct. 1208 , 31 L.Ed.2d 551 (1972) (recognizing that “[t]he integrity of the family unit has found protection in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment”).

To make matters worse, our Byzantine immigration laws and…

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