Mendez

Mendez v. Holder

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361 F. App'x 746
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitDecember 28, 2009No. 06-72863California355 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Maria Ester Mendez and Bélica Marisol Garcia-Mendez, mother and daughter and natives and citizens of Guatemala, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing an appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their applications for relief under the Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (“NACARA”), cancellation of removal, and asylum, withholding of removal, *747 and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction, under statute, to review the agency’s determination that Mendez was not eligible for NACARA relief because she failed to establish that she timely registered for ABC benefits, and Mendez does not raise a legal or constitutional question that invokes our jurisdiction. See Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, § 309(e)(5)(C)(i)-(ii), Pub.L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009 (1996), as amended by Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997 § 203(a)(1), Pub.L. 105-100, 111 Stat. 2160 (1997) (providing that “[a] determination by the…

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