Case Name: Jose Manuel SOTO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Andrea J. Quarantillo, New York District Director, U.S. Citizenship Immigration Services, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, Respondents
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-08-24
Citations: 331 F. App'x 884
Docket Number: No. 08-5288-ag
Parties: Jose Manuel SOTO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Andrea J. Quarantillo, New York District Director, U.S. Citizenship Immigration Services, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, Respondents.
Judges: Present: ROSEMARY S. POOLER, PETER W. HALL and DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 331
Pages: 884–885

Head Matter:
Jose Manuel SOTO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Andrea J. Quarantillo, New York District Director, U.S. Citizenship Immigration Services, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, Respondents.
No. 08-5288-ag.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Aug. 24, 2009.
Mario DeMarco, Law Offices of Mario DeMarco, P.C., Port Chester, NY, for Petitioner.
Jason Wisecup (Lori B. Warlick, Leslie McKay, Michael F. Hertz, on the brief), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Present: ROSEMARY S. POOLER, PETER W. HALL and DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c)(2), Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., is automatically substituted for former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, and District Director Andrea J. Quarantillo is automatically substituted for former District Director Mary Ann Gantner, as respondents in this case.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Petitioner, Jose Manuel Soto, petitions for review of the September 30, 2008, deci sion of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying his application for cancellation of removal under Section 240A(a), 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a), of the INA. We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts, procedural history, and specification of issues for review.
We lack jurisdiction under INA § 242(a)(2)(B)(i), 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i), over Soto's petition for review of the BIA's denial of his application for cancellation of removal, because the BIA denied the application solely as a matter of discretion based on his repeated criminal activity, including several arrests and convictions, and because Soto fails to raise either a colorable constitutional claim or question of law since any errors made by the immigration judge were corrected by the BIA, which exercised its authority to review his request of cancellation de novo under 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(d)(3)(ii). See De La Vega v. Gonzales, 436 F.3d 141, 146 (2d Cir.2006) (holding "that Section 106 of the REAL ID Act does not override statutory provisions denying the courts jurisdiction to review discretionary decisions of the Attorney General [in] the context of cancellation of removal"); Barco-Sandoval v. Gonzales, 516 F.3d 35, 39-41 (2d Cir.2008) (affirming De La Vega).
Accordingly, the petition for review is DISMISSED.