Edwin Lara v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Edwin Lara v. Eric H. Holder Jr., 397 F. App'x 339 (9th Cir. 2010)

Edwin Lara v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Pedro Santiago-Reyes and his family, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their applications for cancellation of removal. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s continuous physical presence determination, Canales-Vargas v. Gonzales, 441 F.3d 739, 742 (9th Cir. 2006), and we deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

The record does not compel the conclusion that petitioners met their burden of establishing continuous physical presence where they failed to provide sufficient evidence supporting their presence from August 1992 to August 2002. See Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir. 1999) (a contrary result is not compelled where there is “[t]he possibility of drawing two inconsistent conclusions from the evidence”) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).

*340 We lack jurisdiction over petitioners’ contention that the agency erred in relying on their withdrawn asylum applications because they failed to exhaust that issue before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir. 2004)

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.

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

Reference

Full Case Name
Pedro SANTIAGO-REYES; Et Al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Status
Unpublished