Cardona-Cardona

Cardona-Cardona v. Gonzales

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180 F. App'x 714
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitMay 18, 2006No. 04-74129California335 words

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MEMORANDUM **

Nery Cardona-Cardona and Zoila Lieba-Rodriguez, husband and wife, and natives and citizens of Guatemala, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision denying their motion to reopen removal proceedings. To the extent we have jurisdiction, it is pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, Membreno v. Gonzales, 425 F.3d 1227, 1229 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc), and review de novo due process challenges, Lara-Torres v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 968, 972 (9th Cir.2004), amended by 404 F.3d 1105 (2005). 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 to present new evidence because petitioners failed to present the BIA with any new facts regarding their applications for relief. See Membreno, 425 F.3d at 1229-1230 . Because the BIA considered the motion to reopen on the merits, petitioners failed to establish prejudice from prior counsel’s failure to file an earlier motion to reopen. See Lara-Torres, 383 F.3d at 973 .

To the extent petitioners now contend they retained prior counsel to petition for review of the BIA’s…

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