Case Name: Jose Luis GARCIA SERRANO; Margarita Villa; et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-02-23
Citations: 367 F. App'x 778
Docket Number: No. 07-73696
Parties: Jose Luis GARCIA SERRANO; Margarita Villa; et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: FERNANDEZ, GOULD, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 367
Pages: 778–779

Head Matter:
Jose Luis GARCIA SERRANO; Margarita Villa; et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 07-73696.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 16, 2010.
Decided Feb. 23, 2010.
Rhoda Wilkinson Domingo, Esquire, Law Offices of Rhoda W. Domingo, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Virginia Lum, OIL, Mon Maria Yousif, Trial, Jocelyn Lopez Wright, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: FERNANDEZ, GOULD, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Jose Luis Garcia Serrano, his wife, Margarita Villa, and their daughters, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying their motion to reopen removal proceedings. Our jurisdic tion is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence findings of fact regarding counsel's performance, Lin v. Ashcroft, 377 F.3d 1014, 1024 (9th Cir. 2004), we review for abuse of discretion the BIA's denial of a motion to reopen, and we review de novo claims of due process violations in removal proceedings, Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791-92 (9th Cir.2005). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.
The evidence of the psychologist's 2007 report regarding Garcia's son's educational and psychological progress that Garcia presented with his motion to reopen concerned the same basic hardship grounds as his application for cancellation of removal. See Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 602-03 (9th Cir.2006). We therefore lack jurisdiction to review the BIA's discretionary determination that the evidence would not alter its prior discretionary determination that he failed to establish the requisite hardship. See id. at 600 (holding that 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) bars this court from reviewing the denial of a motion to reopen where "the only question presented is whether [the] new evidence altered the prior, underlying discretionary determination that [the petitioner] had not met the hardship standard.") (internal quotations and brackets omitted).
We also lack jurisdiction to review any challenge to the immigration judge's denial of relief to Garcia's two daughters because Garcia failed to raise any such challenge before the BIA and thereby failed to exhaust his administrative remedies. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004) (court lacks jurisdiction to review contentions not raised before the agency).
Substantial evidence supports the BIA's conclusion that Garcia did not establish that prior counsel's performance "was so inadequate that it may have affected the outcome of the proceedings." Iturribarria v. INS, 321 F.3d 889, 899-90 (9th Cir.2003) (internal quotation omitted). The BIA therefore did not abuse its discretion by denying the motion to reopen. See Singh v. INS, 295 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2002) (BIA's denial of a motion to reopen shall be reversed if it is "arbitrary, irrational, or contraiy to law").
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.