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Julio VALDEZ-BLAINE, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 10-70054.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted June 15, 2011.
    
    Filed June 28, 2011.
    John Martin Pope, Pope & Associates, PC, Phoenix, AZ, for Petitioner.
    John J.W. Inkeles, Esquire, Trial, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Oil, 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, O’SCANNLAIN, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Julio Valdez-Blaine, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order sustaining the government’s appeal from an immigration judge’s decision granting his application for cancellation of removal. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo constitutional claims, Khan v. Holder, 584 F.3d 773, 776 (9th Cir.2009), and for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, Alarcon-Serrano v. INS, 220 F.3d 1116, 1119 (9th Cir.2000). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s order of removal against Valdez-Blaine under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(C)(i) because substantial evidence supports the agency’s determination that it had reason to believe that Valdez-Blaine knew he was participating in illicit drug trafficking, and Valdez-Blaine does not raise any constitutional or question of law challenge to the order of removability. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(C) & (D); Lopez-Molina v. Ashcroft, 368 F.3d 1206, 1209 (9th Cir.2004).

We also lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s denial of Valdez-Blaine’s application for cancellation of removal as a matter of discretion. See Bermudez v. Holder, 586 F.3d 1167, 1169 (9th Cir.2009) (per curiam). To the extent that Valdez-Blaine contends that the BIA misapplied the standards set forth in 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(d)(3), this contention is not supported by the record.

Valdez-Blaine’s contention that 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(d)(3)(ii) violates due process is not persuasive.

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.