Flores
Flores v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Norma Irene Barrios Flores and two of her children, natives and citizens of Gua *574 témala, petition pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming, without opinion, an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”), and special rule cancellation of removal under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (“NACARA”). To the extent we have jurisdiction, it is conferred by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review de novo claims of due process violations in immigration proceedings. 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 over Barrios Flores’s contentions regarding asylum because she did not challenge before the BIA the IJ’s finding that she had failed to establish a nexus to a protected ground, and thereby failed to exhaust her administrative remedies regarding this dispostive issue. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004) (explaining that this court lacks jurisdiction to review contentions not raised before the…