Sanchez

Sanchez v. Mukasey

Good Law
254 F. App'x 619
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitNovember 15, 2007Nos. 05-72175, 05-73380California419 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Jose Agustín Maldonado Sanchez and Maria De La Cruz Navarro, husband and wife and natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) March 16, 2005 order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their applications for cancellation of removal and the BIA’s May 9, 2005 order denying their motion to reopen removal proceedings. We dismiss the petitions for review in all respects, except that we deny the Petitioners’ due process claims.

We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s discretionary determination that Petitioners failed to show exceptional and extremely unusual hardship. See Romero-Torres v. Ashcroft, 327 F.3d 887, 890 (9th Cir.2003). We view Petitioners’ contentions that the agency made unsupported factual findings and applied an improper legal standard in making its hardship determination as veiled attempts to circumvent the jurisdictional bar to our review of that determination. See Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 930 (9th Cir.2005) (holding that petitioner’s contention “that the IJ erred in finding that she did not [establish the requisite hardship was] nothing more than…

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