Reyes

Reyes v. Gonzales

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229 F. App'x 462
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 23, 2007No. 05-75725California272 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Joaquin Santos Reyes and Rosalia Martha Ortiz-Gonzalez, husband and wife and natives and citizens of Mexico, 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 under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We dismiss the petition for review.

The evidence petitioners presented with their motion concerned the same basic hardship grounds as their application for cancellation of removal. See Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 602-03 (9th Cir.2006). We therefore lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s discretionary determination that petitioners failed to establish that this evidence would likely alter the prior discretionary determination that they failed to establish the requisite hardship. See id. at 600 (holding that 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(2)(B)(i) bars this court from reviewing the denial of a motion to reopen where “the only question presented is *463 whether [the] new evidence altered the prior, underlying discretionary determination that [the petitioner] had not met the hardship standard.”) (Internal quotations and brackets omitted).

Further, petitioners’ contention that…

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