MEMORANDUM **

Carlos Manuel Valenzuela-Morales, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) removal order. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We deny the petition for review.

In his opening brief, Valenzuela-Morales fails to address, and therefore has waived any challenge to, the BIA’s dispositive alternative holding that Valenzuela-Morales did not warrant a favorable exercise of discretion. See Kumar v. Gonzales, 444 F.3d 1043, 1055 (9th Cir. 2006) (“[W]e will not ordinarily consider matters on appeal that are not specifically and distinctly argued in appellant’s opening brief.”) (citation omitted).

Accordingly, we deny the petition for review. In light of our disposition, we do not reach Valenzuela-Morales’s remaining contentions.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.