Case Name: Carlos Josue ALVAREZ; Ivonne Espinoza Flores, Petitioners, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-07-20
Citations: 191 F. App'x 286
Docket Number: No. 04-61169
Parties: Carlos Josue ALVAREZ; Ivonne Espinoza Flores, Petitioners, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before JOLLY, DAVIS, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 191
Pages: 286–287

Head Matter:
Carlos Josue ALVAREZ; Ivonne Espinoza Flores, Petitioners, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 04-61169
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
July 20, 2006.
Avalyn Castillo Langemeier, Quan, Burdette & Perez, Houston, TX, for Petitioners.
David V. Bernal, Thomas Ward Hussey, Director, Jennifer Paisner, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Alberto R. Gonzales, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Caryl G. Thompson, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service District Directors Office, New Orleans, LA, Sharon A. Hudson, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, Houston, TX, for Respondent.
Before JOLLY, DAVIS, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Ivonne Espinoza-Flores (Espinoza), a native and citizen of Mexico, and Carlos Josue-Alvarez (Josué), Espinoza's spouse and a native and citizen of Guatemala appeal the reversal by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) of an immigration judge's grant of cancellation of removal. The BIA denied Espinoza's and Josue's applications for cancellation of removal because they had not shown that their removal would result in "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" to their children. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b). This court lacks jurisdiction to review the Attorney General's discretionary decision regarding cancellation of removal. See Rueda v. Ashcroft, 380 F.3d 831, 831 (5th Cir.2004); 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b); 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)®. The petition for review is dismissed.
Espinoza and Josué argue that the BIA engaged in impermissible fact-finding in reaching its decision. They vaguely state that the BIA should not have assumed the existence of evidence to their detriment "such as a visa to Mexico or Guatemala."
The REAL ID Act authorizes courts to consider "constitutional claims or questions of law" raised in a petition for review. See § 1252(a)(2)(D). To the extent that the claim raises a question of law, this court has jurisdiction to review it. See id.
Pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(d)(3)(i), the BIA may "not engage in de novo review of findings of fact determined by an immigration judge." Id. The record does not reflect, however, that the BIA made factual findings different from those of the IJ and Espinoza and Josué fail to clearly identify such facts. Accordingly, the petition for review is denied.
DISMISSED IN PART FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION; DENIED IN PART.
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.