Salas-Gonzalez

Salas-Gonzalez v. Gonzales

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234 F. App'x 475
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJune 7, 2007No. 06-72359California309 words

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*476 MEMORANDUM **

Jose Luis Salas-Gonzalez and his wife Guadalupe Virgen-Pantoja, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying their applications for cancellation of removal, and denying their motion to remand proceedings. To the extent we have jurisdiction, it is conferred by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s discretionary determination that the petitioners failed to show exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to a qualifying relative. See Romero-Torres v. Ashcroft, 327 F.3d 887, 892 (9th Cir.2003).

The BIA did not abuse its discretion by denying petitioners’ motion to remand, because the BIA considered the evidence they submitted and acted within its broad discretion in determining that the evidence was insufficient to warrant reopening. See Singh v. INS, 295 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2002) (The BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen shall be reversed if it is “arbitrary, irrational, or contrary to law.”); Rodriguez v. INS, 841 F.2d 865, 867 (9th…

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