Ramos Vicente v. Holder

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349 F. App'x 213
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOctober 21, 2009No. 06-75737California308 words

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*215 MEMORANDUM **

Sergio Ramos Vicente and his wife Elvira Lopez Sanchez, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying their motion to reopen proceedings. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, Malty v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 942, 945 (9th Cir.2004), and review de novo claims of due process violations, Colmenar v. INS, 210 F.3d 967, 971 (9th Cir.2000). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion to reopen because it considered the new evidence regarding the hardship to petitioners’ United States Citizen daughter and acted within its broad discretion in determining that the evidence was insufficient to warrant reopening. See Singh v. INS, 295 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2002) (The BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen shall be reversed only if it is “arbitrary, irrational, or contrary to law.”).

The evidence petitioners presented with their motion to reopen regarding the Ramos Vicente’s eye condition concerned the same basic hardship ground previously considered by the…

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