Case Name: Felipe GUARDADO, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-02-16
Citations: 636 F. App'x 961
Docket Number: No. 12-73314
Parties: Felipe GUARDADO, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: McKEOWN and IKUTA, Circuit Judges and PRATT, Senior District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 636
Pages: 961–961

Head Matter:
Felipe GUARDADO, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 12-73314.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 9, 2016.
Filed Feb. 16, 2016.
• Christian De Olivas, Deolivas Law Firm, Riverside, CA, for Petitioner.
Jesse Matthew Bless, Oil, David V. Ber-nal, Assistant Director, 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: McKEOWN and IKUTA, Circuit Judges and PRATT, Senior District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R,App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Robert W, Pratt, Senior District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Felipe Guardado appeals a Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) decision affirming an immigration judge's (IJ) denial of his applications for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U:S.C. § 1252.
Guardado did not appeal the IJ's denial of his asylum application to the BIA. We therefore lack jurisdiction to review Guar-dado's claim that he was improperly denied asylum. See Zara v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 927, 930 (9th Cir.2004) ("We have held that '[fjailure 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.'") (quoting Vargas v. U.S. Dep't of Imm. & Nat., 831 F.2d 906, 907-08 (9th Cir.1987)).
Guardado's conviction for possession for sale of methamphetamine under California Health & Safety Code § 11378 is an aggravated felony that contains a drug trafficking element; it therefore presumptively qualifies as a particularly serious crime. Matter of Y-L-, 23 I. & N. Dec. 270, 275 (A.G.2002); see Rendon v. Mukasey, 520 F.3d 967, 976 (9th Cir.2008). The BIA did not abuse its discretion when it concluded that the underlying circumstances and nature of Guardado's conviction were insufficient to rebut this presumption. Because the BIA identified and applied the correct legal standard, we lack jurisdiction to "reweigh evidence to determine if the crime was indeed particularly serious." Konou v. Holder, 750 F.3d 1120, 1127 (9th Cir.2014) (quoting Blandino-Medina v. Holder, 712 F.3d 1338, 1343 (9th Cir.2013)).
PETITION DISMISSED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir, R. 36-3.