U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2014

Raul Masa Montero v. Eric Holder, Jr.

Raul Masa Montero v. Eric Holder, Jr.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided June 17, 2014 · McKeown, Wardlaw, Smith
579 F. App'x 572

Raul Masa Montero v. Eric Holder, Jr.

Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Raul Masa Montero, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s denial of his application for cancellation of removal, and denying his motion to remand. We dismiss the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s determination that Masa Montero failed to demonstrate the exceptional and extremely unusual hardship necessary for caneella *573 tion of removal. See Vilchiz-Soto v. Holder, 688 F.3d 642, 644 (9th Cir. 2012) (order) (“[Ajbsent a colorable legal or constitutional claim, we lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s discretionary determination that an alien failed to prove that removal would result in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship....”).

We also lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s determination that Masa Montero’s new evidence of hardship accompanying his motion to remand did not alter its underlying hardship determination. See Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 601 (9th Cir. 2006) (“If ... the BIA determines that a motion to reopen proceedings in which there has already been an unreviewable discretionary determination concerning a statutory prerequisite to relief does not make out a prima facie case for that relief, [8 U.S.C.] § 1252(a)(2)(B)® precludes our visiting the merits-”).

Masa Montero’s contentions that the BIA failed to consider either the hardship evidence that he presented at the hearing or his new hardship evidence accompanying his motion to remand are not colorable questions of law that would invoke our jurisdiction. See Mendez-Castro v. Mukasey, 552 F.3d 975, 978 (9th Cir. 2009) (“To be colorable in this context, ... the claim must have some possible validity.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED.

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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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