Case Name: Diego RODRIGUEZ-HERNANDEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-04-30
Citations: 518 F. App'x 454
Docket Number: No. 12-4299
Parties: Diego RODRIGUEZ-HERNANDEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: BEFORE: MARTIN and COOK, Circuit Judges; GRAHAM, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 518
Pages: 454–455

Head Matter:
Diego RODRIGUEZ-HERNANDEZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 12-4299.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
April 30, 2013.
BEFORE: MARTIN and COOK, Circuit Judges; GRAHAM, District Judge.
The Honorable James L. Graham, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Diego Rodriguez-Hernandez, a citizen of Mexico, petitions through counsel for review of an order by the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissing his appeal from a decision of an immigration judge (IJ) denying his application for cancellation of removal pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(l).
Rodriguez-Hernandez was born in Mexico in 1968. He entered the United States illegally in 1989 and has remained in this country since that time. He has three children, all United States citizens, with a woman of Mexican citizenship, who also illegally entered this country.
Cancellation of removal is a discretionary form of relief available to aliens who have been in the United States for at least ten years, have been of good moral character, have not been convicted of certain criminal offenses, and whose family would suffer exceptional and extremely unusual hardship if they were removed from the United States. 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(l). Rodriguez-Hernandez presented evidence at his hearing to establish that he qualified for this relief. The IJ concluded that Rodriguez-Hernandez met all but the last condition. Therefore, the IJ denied Rodriguez-Hernandez relief. However, Rodriguez-Hernandez was granted voluntary departure. The Board dismissed his appeal, and this petition for review followed.
Rodriguez-Hernandez argues that we have jurisdiction to review this case because the agency disregarded its own precedent in Matter of Recinas, 23 I. & N. Dec. 467 (BIA 2002). He cites Aburto-Rocha v. Mukasey, 535 F.3d 500, 503 (6th Cir.2008), in support of his argument. In particular, he argues that, like the applicant in Reciñas, he has shown that his children would suffer hardship in Mexico due to the lack of economic and educational opportunities.
We lack jurisdiction to review a denial of cancellation of removal unless a legal or constitutional claim is presented. Ettienne v. Holder, 659 F.3d 513, 517-18 (6th Cir.2011). In this case, no legal question has been presented. Rodriguez-Hernandez has not shown that the agency disregarded the precedent of Reciñas. In fact, the IJ cited that case, and performed the same analysis, distinguishing Reciñas from the fact of this case. Rodriguez-Hernandez would have us compare the facts of his case to those of Reciñas, and reach the opposite result. We lack jurisdiction to perform such a review. See id. at 519.
The petition for review is denied.