U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2005

Saldana-Velasquez v. Gonzales

Saldana-Velasquez v. Gonzales
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided July 13, 2005 · Bybee, Rawlinson, Schroeder
138 F. App'x 975

Saldana-Velasquez v. Gonzales

Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM **

Daniel Saldana-Velasquez and his wife Ana Maria Castro-Acevedo (the “petitioners”), natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their applications for cancellation of removal. We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ’s discretionary determination that petitioners failed to demonstrate the requisite exceptional and extremely unusual hardship. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B); Romero-Torres v. Ashcroft, 327 F.3d 887, 891-92 (9th Cir. 2003). Furthermore, we lack jurisdiction to consider petitioners’ due process contention that they were denied a full and fair hearing before an impartial fact finder because it was not raised before the BIA. See Sanchez-Cruz v. INS, 255 F.3d 775, 780 (9th Cir. 2001) (due process claims raising correctable procedural errors must be exhausted).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED.

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