Case Name: Filiberto DEGANTE, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-06-08
Citations: 326 F. App'x 406
Docket Number: No. 08-1195
Parties: Filiberto DEGANTE, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
Judges: Before RILEY, SMITH, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 326
Pages: 406–406

Head Matter:
Filiberto DEGANTE, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
No. 08-1195.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: June 2, 2009.
Filed: June 8, 2009.
Joseph Lopez Wilson, Omaha, NE, for Petitioner.
Michelle Gorden Latour, Sada Manick-am, Michele Yvette Frances Sarko, Karen Yolanda Drummond, Richard M. Evans, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Jeff Lynch, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Omaha, NE, for Respondent.
Before RILEY, SMITH, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
. Eric H. Holder, Jr., has been appointed to serve as Attorney General of the United States, and is substituted as respondent pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c).

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Filiberto Degante, a native of Mexico, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that summarily affirmed an immigration judge's (IJ's) denial of his application for cancellation of removal. We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ's determination that Degante failed to show the requisite exceptional and extremely unusual hardship that his removal would cause his United-States-citizen children. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b) (cancellation-of-removal eligibility requirements for nonpermanent residents); 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)© (no court shall have jurisdiction to review any judgment regarding denial of relief under, inter alia, § 1229b); Zacarias-Velasquez v. Mukasey, 509 F.3d 429, 434 (8th Cir.2007) (whether alien meets exceptional- and-extremely-unusual-hardship threshold " 'is precisely the discretionary determination that Congress shielded from our review* " under § 1252(a)(2)(B) (quoting Meraz-Reyes v. Gonzales, 436 F.3d 842, 843 (8th Cir.2006) (per curiam))).
Accordingly, we dismiss the petition.