Case Name: German LAGUNAS-BALTAZAR, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-01-14
Citations: 120 F. App'x 158
Docket Number: No. 02-73733
Parties: German LAGUNAS-BALTAZAR, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: BEEZER, HALL and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 120
Pages: 158–158

Head Matter:
German LAGUNAS-BALTAZAR, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 02-73733.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 10, 2005.
Decided Jan. 14, 2005.
Kevin A. Bove, Esq., Attorney at Law, Escondido, CA, for Petitioner.
District Director, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Diego, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Richard M. Evans, Esq., Office of Immigration Litigation Civil Division, Department of Justice, Joan E. Smiley, Esq., DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: BEEZER, HALL and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
German Lagunas Baltazar, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") summarily affirming an immigration judge's ("IJ") denial of his application for cancellation of removal. We lack jurisdiction to review discretionary decisions, see Romero-Torres v. Ashcroft, 327 F.3d 887, 892 (9th Cir.2003), and we do not consider discretionary decisions that are simply recast in due process language, see Torres-Aguilar v. INS, 246 F.3d 1267, 1270-71 (9th Cir.2001). We dismiss the petition for review.
We reject Lagunas-Baltazar's contention that the BIA denied him due process by fading to remand the case to the IJ to present evidence under the new standard for "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" announced in Matter of Monreal-Aguinaga, 23 I. & N. Dec. 56, 2001 WL 534295 (BIA 2001). See Ramirez-Perez v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 1001, 1006-07 (9th Cir. 2003).
We also reject Lagunas-Baltazar's contention that he was denied due process before the IJ and the BIA because they failed to give adequate consideration to the facts of his case. See Torres-Aguilar, 246 F.3d at 1271 ("a petitioner may not create 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 Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.