Case Name: LIYUN SHANG, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-04-14
Citations: 599 F. App'x 227
Docket Number: No. 14-60385
Parties: LIYUN SHANG, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before DAVIS, CLEMENT, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 599
Pages: 227–228

Head Matter:
LIYUN SHANG, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 14-60385
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
April 14, 2015.
Donglai Yang, Law Office Of Donglai Yang, New Orleans, LA, for Petitioner.
Gerald Mark Alexander, Rachel Louise Browning, Trial Attorney, Tangerlia Cox, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before DAVIS, CLEMENT, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Chinese national Liyun Shang petitions this court for review of the Board of Immi gration Appeals's (BIA) decision dismissing her appeal of the Immigration Judge's (IJ) discretionary denial of cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b. She argues that the BIA and IJ erroneously failed to consider and give appropriate weight to the hardship her United States citizen spouse would suffer if she is removed, the fact that she has been rehabilitated from her sole prior conviction, and that she suffered abuse at the hands of her former spouse in China.
The respondent moves to dismiss the petition for lack of jurisdiction. Shang opposes the motion, recasting her arguments as legal errors.
We are statutorily barred from reviewing the Id's and BIA's purely discretionary denial of cancellation of removal. 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i); Sung v. Keisler, 505 F.3d 372, 377 (5th Cir.2007). This jurisdiction-stripping provision does not preclude review of constitutional claims or questions of law. § 1252(a)(2)(D); Sung, 505 F.3d at 377. However, we look past an alien's framing of an issue and will decline to consider an abuse of discretion argument cloaked in constitutional or legal garb. Hadwani v. Gonzales, 445 F.3d 798, 801 (5th Cir.2006); Delgado-Reynua v. Gonzales, 450 F.3d 596, 599-600 (5th Cir.2006). Because Shang's arguments challenging the IJ's and BIA's assessment of the evidence and testimony are nothing more than a disagreement with their weighing of the factors underlying the discretionary decision whether she merited cancellation of removal, we lack jurisdiction over that challenge. See Sung, 505 F.3d at 377.
Accordingly, the respondent's motion is GRANTED, and the petition is DISMISSED FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47-5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.