Salazar

Salazar v. Gonzales

Good Law
230 F. App'x 731
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 30, 2007No. 06-72167California225 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Guillermo Arturo Isidro Salazar seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his motion to reopen removal proceedings. We dismiss the petition for review.

The evidence Isidro Salazar presented with his motion to reopen concerned the same basic hardship grounds as his 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 the evidence would not alter its prior discretionary determination that he 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 whether [the] new evidence altered the prior, underlying discretionary determination that [the petitioner] had not met the hardship standard.”) (Internal quotations and brackets omitted).

Our conclusion that we lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s determination that Isidro Salazar did not make out a prima facie case of hardship forecloses his argument that the BIA denied him due process by failing to consider and…

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