Rosas-Cabrera

Rosas-Cabrera v. Mukasey

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262 F. App'x 74
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitDecember 28, 2007No. 06-75041California203 words

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MEMORANDUM **

Ana Cecilia Rosas-Cabrera, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ denial of her motion to reopen the BIA’s underlying denial of her application for cancellation of removal based on petitioner’s failure to establish exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to her qualifying relative. In her motion to reopen, petitioner presented additional evidence that her United States citizen daughter’s anxiety had increased, and that she also suffered from depression, so as to constitute exceptional and extremely unusual hardship.

The evidence that petitioner presented with her motion to reopen concerned the same basic hardship grounds as her application for cancellation of removal, see Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 602-03 (9th Cir.2006), and we therefore lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s discretionary determination that the evidence was insufficient to establish a prima facie case of hardship. See id. at 601 . Petitioner’s statement that the BIA’s refusal to reopen constituted a denial of due process does not amount to a colorable constitutional claim. See Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 930 (9th…

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