Opinion ID: 198722
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Heading: Challenge to Extreme Hardship Determination

Text: 19 Our opinion in Bernal-Vallejo controls. In Mendes's case, as in Bernal-Vallejo's, the BIA's denial of suspension of deportation was based on a determination that he could not meet the third eligibility requirement for relief from deportation. The BIA affirmed the IJ's finding that neither Mendes, nor his family, would suffer extreme hardship if he were deported. In Bernal-Vallejo we concluded that we lacked jurisdiction to review the BIA's decision, based on a failure to show extreme hardship, not to suspend deportation. See id. 63. Under the two-pronged analysis we established therein, § 309(c)(4)(E) bars judicial review because (1) § 244, suspension of deportation, is an enumerated section within § 309(c)(4)(E), and (2) the extreme hardship determination has been committed to agency discretion. See id.