Diaz

Diaz v. Holder

Good Law
324 F. App'x 675
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 29, 2009No. 07-73790California260 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Federico Sandoval Diaz, and his wife and then- children, petition for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying petitioners’ motion to reconsider the BIA’s denial of their motion to reopen the underlying denial of their applications for cancellation of removal. The BIA also construed petitioners’ motion as a second motion to reopen, and denied it as numerically barred.

Petitioners sought to introduce additional evidence of their qualifying relatives’ hardship if'petitioners were removed. Petitioners contend that the BIA erred in finding no hardship.

The BIA properly denied the motion to reconsider based on petitioners’ failure to allege any material or factual errors in the underlying decision. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2 (b)(1). Petitioners have waived any challenge to the BIA’s denial of their motion to reopen by failing to raise any arguments related to the BIA’s dispositive determination that the motion was numerically barred. We do not consider the due process claims which petitioners raise for the first time in their reply brief. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996). To the extent that petitioners challenge the…

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