Lorenzo-Bustos

Lorenzo-Bustos v. Mukasey

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254 F. App'x 701
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitNovember 20, 2007Nos. 05-72473, 05-75375California436 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

In these consolidated petitions, Nuvel Lorenzo-Bustos and Alejandra Santiago-Reyes seek review of: (1) a Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying Lorenzo-Bustos’s application for cancellation of removal, and reversing an Id’s order granting Santiago-Reyes’s application for cancellation of removal (No. 05-72473), and (2) the BIA’s order denying their motion to reconsider its previous order (No. 05-75375). To the extent we have jurisdiction, it is conferred by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reconsider, see Oh v. Gonzales, 406 F.3d 611, 612 (9th Cir.2005), and we review de novo claims of constitutional violations in immigration proceedings, see Ram v. INS, 243 F.3d 510, 516 (9th Cir.2001). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petitions for review in both No. 05-72473 and No. 05-75375.

We lack jurisdiction over Santiago-Reyes’s case because in the record before us there is no final order of removal as to her. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a). The record demonstrates that the BIA remanded her case to the IJ, but nothing further.

We also lack jurisdiction to review the…

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