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295 F. App'x 870

Rivera v. Mukasey

U.S. Courts of Appeals

Decided September 24, 2008

U.S. Courts of Appeals · decided 2008-09-24

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Barron v. Ashcroft · Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales

Decided 2008-09-24

¶1MEMORANDUM …

¶2Juan Antonio Arias Rivera and Maria Isabel Arias Arroyo, married natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying their applications for cancellation of removal. We dismiss the petition for review.

¶3We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s discretionary determination that petitioners failed to show exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to their qualifying relative. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i); Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 930 (9th Cir. 2005).

¶4Petitioners contend the IJ violated due process by taking administrative notice of disputed facts regarding special education opportunities in Mexico without giving petitioners an opportunity to be heard on this issue. We lack jurisdiction to review this contention because petitioners failed to raise it before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004) (due process challenges that are “procedural in nature” must be exhausted).

¶5PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED.

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

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