Cuenca

Cuenca v. Gonzales

Good Law
219 F. App'x 630
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJanuary 17, 2007Nos. 04-74827, 05-76319California304 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

In these consolidated petitions, Gerardo Ortiz Cuenca and his wife Maria Griselda Espinoza, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order denying their applications for cancellation of removal, as well as the BIA’s order denying their motion to reopen. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen. Iturribarria v. INS, 321 F.3d 889, 894 (9th Cir.2003). We dismiss the petition for review in No. 05-76319 and deny the petition for review in No. 04-74827.

We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ’s discretionary determination that the Petitioners lack the requisite good moral character for cancellation of removal. See Moran v. Ashcroft, 395 F.3d 1089, 1091 (9th Cir.2005) (indicating that a good moral character determination is only reviewable where it is based on one of the statutory exclusions found in 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (f)). We also lack jurisdiction to review the IJ’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). We…

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