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FILED
                              NOT FOR PUBLICATION                          DEC 11 2013

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                              FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RUBIT ANABELI ZUNIGA AGUIRRE,                    No. 11-72789

               Petitioner,                       Agency No. A070-920-604

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM*
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,

               Respondent.

                      On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                          Board of Immigration Appeals

                             Submitted November 19, 2013**

Before:        CANBY, TROTT, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

       Rubit Anabeli Zuniga Aguirre, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions

pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing her

appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying her application for special

rule cancellation of removal under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
American Relief Act (“NACARA”). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. §

1252. We review de novo questions of law, including due process claims. Barron

v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677 (9th Cir. 2004). We dismiss in part and deny in part

the petition for review.

      We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s factual determination that

Zuniga Aguirre is not eligible for NACARA relief. See Ixcot v. Holder, 646 F.3d
1202, 1213-14 (9th Cir. 2011) (the court is precluded from reviewing the agency’s

factual determination that an immigrant is ineligible for special rule cancellation of

removal under NACARA).

      We also lack jurisdiction to consider Zuniga Aguirre’s contention that under

Chaly-Garcia v. United States, 508 F.3d 1201 (9th Cir. 2007), the asylum

application she allegedly filed in May 1990 should qualify her for benefits under

the ABC settlement agreement, because she failed to raise this contention before

the agency, and thereby failed to exhaust her administrative remedies. See Barron,
358 F.3d at 678.

      Zuniga Aguirre’s claim that she was not given an opportunity to testify

regarding her eligibility for NACARA relief is unavailing where she was given

such an opportunity during her removal proceedings. See Lata v. INS, 204

                                           2                                    11-72789
F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir. 2000) (requiring error to prevail on a due process

claim).

      PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED in part; DENIED in part.

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