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FILED
                              NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           AUG 09 2010

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                      UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                     U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                              FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

FELIPE DE JESUS LAMAS FLORES;                     Nos. 05-70324
EMELIA GARCIA DE LAMAS,                                05-74221

               Petitioners,                       Agency Nos. A077-374-934
                                                              A077-374-935
  v.

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

               Respondent.

                       On Petitions for Review of Orders of the
                           Board of Immigration Appeals

                               Submitted April 5, 2010 **

Before:        RYMER, McKEOWN, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

       In this consolidated petition for review, Felipe De Jesus Lamas Flores and

Emelia Garcia De Lamas, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the

Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) orders dismissing their appeal from an

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
            The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without
oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying their applications for cancellation of

removal, and denying their motion to reopen. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8

U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo constitutional challenges, Ram v. INS, 243

F.3d 510, 516 (9th Cir. 2001). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for

review in No. 05-70324, and grant the petition for review in No. 05-74221 and

remand.

      We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s determination that petitioners failed

to establish the requisite hardship. See Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 596

(9th Cir. 2006). Contrary to petitioners’ contentions, the agency’s interpretation of

the hardship standard falls within the broad range of permissible interpretations of

the statute. See Ramirez-Perez v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 1001, 1005-06 (9th Cir.

2003). Petitioners failed to exhaust the contention that the IJ made erroneous

factual findings. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir. 2004).

      We are in receipt of Petitioners’ Re-Submission of Supplemental

Documentation, which attaches a FedEx delivery record. If credited, the delivery

record shows that petitioners’ motion to reopen was timely received by the BIA.

We remand No. 05-74221 to the BIA for further consideration of the timeliness of

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petitioners’ motion to reopen in light of the delivery record. See INS v. Ventura,

537 U.S. 12, 17 (2002).

      In No. 05-70324: PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED in part;

DENIED in part.

      In No. 05-74221: PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED;

REMANDED.

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