Case Name: Santana OLIVA-MUNOZ, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-06-17
Citations: 134 F. App'x 207
Docket Number: No. 04-71441
Parties: Santana OLIVA-MUNOZ, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: KLEINFELD, TASHIMA and THOMAlS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 134
Pages: 207–208

Head Matter:
Santana OLIVA-MUNOZ, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 04-71441.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 14, 2005.
Decided June 17, 2005.
Robert F. Jacobs, Esq., Law Offices of Robert F. Jacobs, Downey, CA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, OIL, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Office of Immigration LIT., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: KLEINFELD, TASHIMA and THOMAlS, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
Alberto R. Gonazles is substituted for his predecessor, John Ashcroft, as Attorney General of the United States, pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 43(c)(z).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Santana Oliva-Munoz, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") affirming, without opinion, the immigration judge's denial of his application for cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo, Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1093 (9th Cir.2002), and deny the petition for review.
Because Oliva-Munoz did not, at the time of the hearing, have a qualifying spouse, parent or child, the Immigration Judge correctly determined that he was ineligible for cancellation of removal. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(l)(D); Molina-Estrada, 293 F.3d at 1093-94. Oliva-Munoz's equal protection claim is foreclosed by this court's decision in Jimenez-Angeles v. Ashcroft, 291 F.3d 594, 602-03 (9th Cir. 2002) (rejecting equal protection claim based on NACARA's more favorable treatment of individuals from certain designated countries).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).