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Maria Santos CRUZ-BARAJAS and Yosimar Barajas-Cruz, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 09-71608.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Oct. 19, 2010.
    
    Filed Oct. 22, 2010.
    Brian Patrick Conry, Brian Patrick Con-ry, P.C., Portland, OR, for Petitioners.
    
      Leslie Mckay, Esquire, Assistant Director, OIL, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: O’SCANNLAIN, TALLMAN and BEA, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Petitioners Maria Santos Cruz-Barajas and Yosimar Barajas-Cruz, mother and son and natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their application for cancellation of removal. We dismiss the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s discretionary determination that, even though all witnesses testified credibly, petitioners failed to show exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to the United States citizen child. 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B); Mendez-Castro v. Mukasey, 552 F.3d 975, 979 (9th Cir.2009).

Petitioners’ contentions that the Board failed to properly consider and weigh all evidence of hardship do not raise a color-able due process claim. Martinez-Rosas v. Gonzales, 424 F.3d 926, 930 (9th Cir.2005).

We decline to address petitioners’ unex-hausted contention that they were denied due process and a fair trial because the IJ was not neutral. Ontiveros-Lopez v. INS, 213 F.3d 1121, 1124 (9th Cir.2000) (declining to consider a claim that Board did not have first opportunity to consider).

We lack jurisdiction to review the Board’s denial of petitioners’ motion to reopen, which introduced further evidence of hardship to the United States citizen child. See Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 600 (9th Cir.2006) (explaining that § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) bars jurisdiction when question presented in motion to reopen is essentially the same hardship ground originally decided).

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