Case Name: Nery Saul FLORES LEON, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-05-19
Citations: 181 F. App'x 660
Docket Number: No. 04-72725
Parties: Nery Saul FLORES LEON, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: B. FLETCHER, TROTT, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 181
Pages: 660–661

Head Matter:
Nery Saul FLORES LEON, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 04-72725.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 15, 2006.
Decided May 19, 2006.
Nery Saul Flores-Leon, Los Angeles, CA, pro se.
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, Linda S. Wernery, Esq., William C. Minick, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: B. FLETCHER, TROTT, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Nery Saul Flores Leon, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' order summarily affirming an Immigration Judge's ("U") decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We dismiss the petition for review.
We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ's discretionary denial of cancellation of removal for failure to satisfy the "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" requirement. See Romero-Torres v. Ashcroft, 327 F.3d 887, 892 (9th Cir.2003). We also lack jurisdiction to consider Flores Leon's contention that the IJ violated his due process and equal protection rights by failing to accord proper weight to the impact of his removal on his two U.S. citizen daughters. See Torres-Aguilar v. INS, 246 F.3d 1267, 1271 (9th Cir.2001) ("[A] petitioner may not create the jurisdiction that Congress chose to remove simply by cloaking an abuse of discretion argument in constitutional garb.").
PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.