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Alex CARRILLO-GARCIA, aka Alex Garcia, aka Alex La Paz, aka Alex Giovanni Lopez, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 13-73844.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 21, 2015.
    
    Filed Aug. 4, 2015.
    Alex Carrillo-Garcia, Aliso Viejo, CA, pro se.
    Carmel Aileen Morgan, Esquire, Trial O.I.L., D.O.J.-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: CANBY, BEA, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Alex Carrillo-Garcia, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order of removal. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law. Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791-92 (9th Cir.2005). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

The BIA correctly determined that Carrillo-Garcia failed to challenge the IJ’s conclusion that his conviction under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) renders him ineligible for cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(l)(C). Accordingly, we lack jurisdiction to review Carrillo-Garcia’s unexhausted contentions that his criminal history does not include an aggravated felony and that he qualifies for the petty offense exception. See Abebe v. Mukasey, 554 F.3d 1203, 1207-08 (9th Cir.2009) (en bane) (explaining that issues raised in the notice of appeal but not argued in an appellant’s principal brief are deemed abandoned); Tijani v. Holder, 628 F.3d 1071, 1080 (9th Cir.2010) (“We lack jurisdiction to review legal claims not presented in an alien’s administrative proceedings before the BIA.”).

To the extent Carrillo-Garcia challenges the agency’s bond determination, this challenge is not properly before us. See 8 U.S.C. § 1226(e); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.19(d); Leonardo v. Crawford, 646 F.3d 1157, 1160 (9th Cir.2011) (clarifying the proper procedure for challenging a Casas-Castrillon bond determination).

Carrillo-Garda has waived any challenge to the BIA’s determination that he is not eligible for any other form of relief. See Tijani, 628 F.3d at 1080 (“[W]e generally will not take up arguments not raised in an alien’s opening brief before this court.”).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED in part; DENIED in part. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.