Case Name: Salvador VARGAS TREJO; Graciela Palacios Soto, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-09-22
Citations: 396 F. App'x 408
Docket Number: No. 08-73146
Parties: Salvador VARGAS TREJO; Graciela Palacios Soto, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SILVERMAN, CALLAHAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 396
Pages: 408–409

Head Matter:
Salvador VARGAS TREJO; Graciela Palacios Soto, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 08-73146.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Sept. 13, 2010.
Filed Sept. 22, 2010.
Fabian C. Serrato, Serrato Law Firm, Santa Ana, CA, for Petitioners.
Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Nehal Kamani, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: SILVERMAN, CALLAHAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Salvador Vargas Trejo and Graciela Pa-lacios Soto, husband and wife and natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order denying their motion to reopen based on ineffective assistance of counsel. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, and de novo claims of due process violations in immigration proceedings, including claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791-92 (9th Cir.2005). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.
We agree with the BIA's conclusion that petitioners failed to establish that former counsel's performance resulted in prejudice, and thus their claim of ineffective assistance of counsel fails. Id. at 793-94 (to demonstrate prejudice, alien must establish that counsel's performance may have affected the outcome of the proceedings).
We lack jurisdiction to review petitioners' contention that former counsel and unnamed notaries defrauded them by filing fruitless motions before the agency because petitioners failed to raise that issue before the BIA and thereby failed to exhaust their administrative remedies. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004) (explaining that this court lacks jurisdiction to review contentions not raised before the agency).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.