U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2010

Lamas Flores v. Holder

Lamas Flores v. Holder
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided August 9, 2010 · Rymer, McKeown, Paez
391 F. App'x 667

Lamas Flores v. Holder

Opinion

ORDER

Lamas Flores and Garcia de Lamas’ petition for panel rehearing is granted. The memorandum disposition filed on April 14, 2010, is withdrawn. An amended memorandum disposition will be filed concurrently with this order.

*668 MEMORANDUM **

In this consolidated petition for review, Felipe De Jesus Lamas Flores and Emelia Garcia De Lamas, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) orders dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying their applications for cancellation of removal, and denying their motion to reopen. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo constitutional challenges, Ram v. INS, 243 F.3d 510, 516 (9th Cir. 2001). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review in No. 05-70324, and grant the petition for review in No. 05-74221 and remand.

We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s determination that petitioners failed to establish the requisite hardship. See Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 596 (9th Cir. 2006). Contrary to petitioners’ contentions, the agency’s interpretation of the hardship standard falls within the broad range of permissible interpretations of the statute. See Ramirez-Perez v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 1001, 1005-06 (9th Cir. 2003). Petitioners failed to exhaust the contention that the IJ made erroneous factual findings. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir. 2004).

We are in receipt of Petitioners’ ReSubmission of Supplemental Documentation, which attaches a FedEx delivery record. If credited, the delivery record shows that petitioners’ motion to reopen was timely received by the BIA. We remand No. 05-74221 to the BIA for further consideration of the timeliness of petitioners’ motion to reopen in light of the delivery record. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 17, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002).

In No. 05-70324: PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED in part; DENIED in part.

In No. 05-74221: PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.

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This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

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