Court Opinion

ID: 9393568
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-10 17:01:06.048258+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:54.016029
License: Public Domain

NOT FOR PUBLICATION                          FILED
                  UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                         MAY 10 2023
                                                                     MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CARLOS OMAR CARDENAS PARRA,                     No. 22-319

              Petitioner,                       Agency No.       A213-082-569

  v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney
General,

              Respondent.

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

                             Submitted May 08, 2023 **
                             San Francisco, California

Before: FRIEDLAND and BENNETT, Circuit Judges, and BENNETT,***
District Judge.

       Carlos Omar Cardenas Parra petitions for review of a Board of

Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) order upholding an immigration judge’s (“IJ”)

denial of cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b). Cardenas Parra

       *
            This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not
precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
       **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
       ***
              The Honorable Richard D. Bennett, United States District Judge
for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.
argues only that the IJ—and the BIA by agreeing with the IJ’s decision—

violated his due process rights by failing to consider all relevant evidence in

denying cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction over such constitutional

questions, but only if the claim is not insubstantial or frivolous. See 8 U.S.C.

§ 1252(a)(2)(D); Mendez-Castro v. Mukasey, 552 F.3d 975, 979–80 (9th Cir.

2009).

       The due process claim is frivolous. The IJ explicitly mentioned the

evidence that Cardenas Parra claims the IJ failed to consider: the ages of his

United States citizen children, his regular weekend visits to see his children and

provision of emotional and financial support to them, and his children’s

mother’s lack of lawful immigration status. The IJ then stated that he “weighed

all the evidence of the record, both individually and cumulatively on the issue of

exceptional and extremely unusual hardship.” The IJ’s statements about

Cardenas Parra “bypass[ing] the line” do not show that the IJ ignored any

evidence relevant to the hardship determination. We therefore lack

jurisdiction. 1

       PETITION DISMISSED.

1
  Cardenas Parra does not challenge the merits of the BIA’s determination that
he failed to establish the requisite hardship for cancellation of removal. See 8
U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(1)(D); Mendez-Castro, 552 F.3d at 978. Thus, we have no
occasion to address the applicability of De La Rosa-Rodriguez v. Garland, 49
F.4th 1282, 1290–91 (9th Cir. 2022) (suggesting that the hardship determination
for cancellation of removal may be a mixed question of law and fact subject to
judicial review).

                                         2