Rito

Rito v. Mukasey

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272 F. App'x 556
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitMarch 24, 2008No. 07-70239California285 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Irma Grajeda Rito, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying her motion to reopen the underlying denial of her application for cancellation of removal, which was based on her failure to establish the requisite hardship to her qualifying United States citizen son.

In her motion to reopen, Rito asserted exceptional and extremely unusual hardship based on the new evidence of the birth of her second United States citizen child, her separation from her children’s father, the onset of a medical condition which caused her to feel dizzy, and her son’s asthma and educational difficulties. The evidence of Rito’s son’s asthma condition and his educational difficulties concerned the same basic hardship grounds as Rito’s application for cancellation of removal. See Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 602-03 (9th Cir.2006). We therefore lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s discretionary determination that the evidence would not alter its prior discretionary determination that Rito failed to *558 establish the requisite hardship. See id. at 600 .

Rito’s evidence of the birth of her daughter, the…

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