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Silvia Leticia Barojas ALEJANDRE, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
    Nos. 04-72412, 04-75494.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Dec. 5, 2005.
    
    Decided Dec. 16, 2005.
    Robert W. Yarra, Esq., Fresno, CA, for Petitioner.
    Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, David V. Bernal, Attorney, Russell J.E. Verby, Esq., U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./OfSce of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: GOODWIN, W. FLETCHER, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Silvia Leticia Barojas Alejandre, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) April 4, 2004 decision affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying her application for cancellation of removal (No. 04-72412), and its September 28, 2004 order denying her motion to reopen (No. 04-75494). To the extent we have jurisdiction it is conferred by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo due process claims, and review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen. Rodriguez-Lariz v. INS, 282 F.3d 1218, 1222 (9th Cir. 2002). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

Barojas Alejandre’s contention that the IJ erred by misapplying BIA precedent to the facts of her case “is nothing more than an argument that the IJ abused his discretion, a matter over which we have no jurisdiction.” Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 930 (9th Cir.2005). We furthermore lack jurisdiction to consider any direct challenge to “the subjective, discretionary determination that an alien failed to satisfy the ‘exceptional and extremely unusual hardship’ requirement for cancellation of removal.” Id.

We also lack jurisdiction to review the Barojas Alejandre’s contention that the I J’s denial of her request for a continuance violated her due process rights, because she failed to raise the issue before the BIA and thereby failed to exhaust her administrative remedies. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(d)(1); Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677 (9th Cir.2004); see also Rashtabadi v. INS, 23 F.3d 1562, 1567 (9th Cir. 1994) (“A petitioner cannot obtain review of procedural errors in the administrative process that were not raised before the agency merely by alleging that every such error violates due process.”) (citation omitted).

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Petitioner’s motion to reopen because it considered the new evidence Barajas Alejandre offered regarding her son’s cognitive and hearing impairments, and acted within its broad discretion in determining that the evidence was unlikely to change the result in the case. See Singh v. INS, 295 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2002) (The BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen shall be reversed only if it is “arbitrary, irrational or contrary to law.”).

The voluntary departure period was stayed, and that stay will expire upon issuance of the mandate. See Desta v. Ashcroft, 365 F.3d 741 (9th Cir.2004).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.