Roldan
Roldan v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
In these consolidated petitions, Maria De Los Angeles Roldan, a native and citizen of Mexico, seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order adopting and affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her application for cancellation of removal and the BIA’s order denying her motion to reopen proceedings due to ineffective assistance of counsel. To the extent we have jurisdiction, it is under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the denial of a motion to reopen for an abuse of discretion. See Lara-Torres v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 968, 972 (9th Cir. 2004), amended by 404 F.3d 1105 (9th Cir.2005). We dismiss the petition for review in No. 05-77143 and deny the petition for review in No. 06-73166.
We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s determination that Roldan failed to demonstrate that her removal would result in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to a qualifying relative. See Romero-Torres v. Ashcroft, 327 F.3d 887, 888 (9th Cir.2003). We also lack jurisdiction to consider Roldan’s unexhausted claim that the IJ failed to advise Roldan of the importance of claiming hardship to her parents. See Vargas v. INS, 831 F.2d 906, 907-08 (9th…