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Jairo Oswaldo ROCHE-MEJIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 10-73702.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted May 14, 2013.
    
    Filed May 17, 2013.
    Sharon A. Healey, Law Office of Sharon A. Healey, Seattle, WA, for Petitioner.
    David Nicholas Harling, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: LEAVY, THOMAS, 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

Jairo Oswaldo Roche-Mejia, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and cancellation of removal. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We dismiss the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to consider Roche-Mejia’s contention that he established past persecution and fears future persecution on account of imputed political opinion because he did not raise it to the BIA. See Vargas v. INS, 831 F.2d 906, 907-08 (9th Cir.1987) (“Failure to raise an issue in an appeal to the BIA constitutes a failure to exhaust remedies with respect to that question and deprives this court of jurisdiction to hear the matter.”). Roche-Mejia does not otherwise challenge the BIA’s denial of asylum and withholding of removal. See Tijani v. Holder, 628 F.3d 1071, 1080 (9th Cir.2010) (“Issues not raised and argued in the opening brief are deemed waived.”).

We also lack jurisdiction to consider Roche-Mejia’s contention regarding alleged due process violations relating to the hearing transcript because he failed to raise it to the BIA. See Vargas, 831 F.2d at 907-08.

Finally, with respect to Roche-Mejia’s cancellation of removal claim, we lack jurisdiction to consider his challenge to the agency’s hardship determination. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)®; Figueroa v. Mukasey, 543 F.3d 487, 494 (9th Cir.2008) (this court lacks jurisdiction to review BIA’s discretionary determination that an applicant for cancellation of removal failed to establish that his removal would result in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to U.S. citizen relatives).

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