Maldonado

MEMORANDUM **

Rosa Mariscal De Maldonado (“Maldonado”), a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her application for cancellation of removal and adjustment of status. To the extent we have jurisdiction, it is pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 .

In the “Statement of the Issues” section of her brief before us, Maldonado purports to raise the issue of “[w]hether the [IJ] and the BIA ... violated [her] due process rights by not allowing [her] to apply for cancellation of removal under INA section 240A(b), 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b), because she had apparently been the subject of a ‘Romalez Departure,’ thus cutting off her continuous physical presence in the United States and rendering her statutorily ineligible for cancellation of removal.” But the “Argument” section of her brief makes no mention of this issue. Thus, it is waived. See Int'l Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsman Local Union No. 20, AFL-CIO v. Martin Jaska, Inc., 752 F.2d 1401, 1404 (9th Cir.1985) (“[W]e will not ordinarily consider matters on appeal that are not specifically and distinctly…