Valdez-Espinoza

Valdez-Espinoza v. Gonzales

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196 F. App'x 496
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitAugust 2, 2006No. 05-72974California271 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Josefina Valdez-Espinoza and Yuri Areli Burgoa-Guiterrez, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their applications for cancellation of removal. To the extent *497 we have jurisdiction, it is conferred by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review de novo claims of due process violations in immigration proceedings. See Sanchez-Cruz v. INS, 255 F.3d 775, 779 (9th Cir.2001). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s discretionary determination that the petitioners failed to show exceptional and extremely unusual hardship. See Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 929 (9th Cir.2005).

The petitioners’ contentions that the BIA disregarded their evidence, failed to consider the hardship factors relating to Valdez-Espinoza’s daughter, and misapplied the law to the facts of their case, do not state colorable due process claims. See id. at 930 (“[tjraditional abuse of discretion challenges recast as alleged due process violations do not constitute color-able constitutional claims that would…

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