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Date Created: 2017-08-09 15:00:43.002215+00
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11-4588
     Wu v. Sessions
                                                                                        BIA
                                                                                   Nelson, IJ
                                                                            A088 526 075/076
                           UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                               FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

                                 SUMMARY ORDER
RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED
ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE
PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT=S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT
FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE
(WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING TO A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY
OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.

 1        At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for
 2   the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States
 3   Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the
 4   9th day of August, two thousand seventeen.
 5
 6   PRESENT:
 7            JON O. NEWMAN,
 8            DENNIS JACOBS,
 9            PIERRE N. LEVAL,
10                 Circuit Judges.
11   _____________________________________
12
13   XIU YAN WU, YONG XIANG LIU,
14                 Petitioners,
15
16                    v.                                             11-4588
17                                                                   NAC
18
19   JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, UNITED
20   STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL,
21                 Respondent.
22   _____________________________________
23
24   FOR PETITIONERS:                    Richard Tarzia, Belle Mead, New
25                                       Jersey.
26
27   FOR RESPONDENT:                     Stuart F. Delery, Acting Assistant
28                                       Attorney General; Russell J.E.
29                                       Verby, Senior Litigation Counsel;
30                                       John D. Williams, Trial Attorney,
31                                       Office of Immigration Litigation,
1                                 United States Department of Justice,
2                                 Washington, D.C.
3
4            UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a

5    Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision, it is hereby

6    ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the petition for review is

7    DENIED in part and DISMISSED in part.

8            Petitioners Xiu Yan Wu and Yong Xiang Liu, natives and

9    citizens of China, seek review of an October 5, 2011, decision

10   of the BIA affirming the October 1, 2010, decision of an

11   Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denying their application for asylum,

12   withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against

13   Torture (“CAT”), and denying Liu’s application for cancellation

14   of removal.     In re Xiu Yan Wu, Yong Xiang Liu, Nos. A088 526

15   075/076 (B.I.A. Oct. 5, 2011), aff’g Nos. A088 526 075/076

16   (Immig. Ct. N.Y. City Oct. 1, 2010).     We assume the parties’

17   familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history

18   of this case.

19           The applicable standards of review are well established.

20   See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(B); see also Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey,

21   546 F.3d 138, 157-58 (2d Cir. 2008).     Petitioners applied for

22   asylum and related relief based on the birth of their children

23   in the United States purportedly in violation of China’s

24   population control program.

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1            For largely the same reasons as this Court set forth in Jian

2    Hui Shao, we find no error in the agency’s determination that

3    they failed to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution

4    based on the birth of their children.      See 546 F.3d at 158-72.

5    That finding was dispositive of asylum, withholding of removal,

6    and CAT relief.     See Paul v. Gonzales, 444 F.3d 148, 156-57 (2d

7    Cir. 2006).

8            We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s denial of

9    cancellation of removal based on Liu’s failure to establish

10   hardship to a qualifying relative.       8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B);

11   Barco-Sandoval v. Gonzales, 516 F.3d 35, 39-40 (2d Cir. 2008).

12   Although we retain jurisdiction to review constitutional claims

13   and questions of law, for which our review is de novo, 8 U.S.C.

14   § 1252(a)(2)(D); Pierre v. Holder, 588 F.3d 767, 772 (2d Cir.

15   2009), Liu’s argument that the agency failed to adequately

16   consider the impact his removal would have on his children’s

17   health merely quarrels with the agency’s factual findings, see

18   Xiao Ji Chen v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 471 F.3d 315, 330-31 (2d

19   Cir. 2006); see also Mendez v. Holder, 566 F.3d 316, 323 (2d

20   Cir. 2009) (“[T]he agency does not commit an ‘error of law’ every

21   time an item of evidence is not explicitly considered or is

22   described with imperfect accuracy . . . .”).       Because we lack

23   jurisdiction to review the agency’s dispositive hardship
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1    determination, see 8 U.S.C. §§ 1229b(b)(1)(D), 1252(a)(2)(B),

2    we do not reach the agency’s alternative finding that Liu failed

3    to establish the requisite physical presence for cancellation

4    of removal, see INS v. Bagamasbad, 429 U.S. 24, 25 (1976) (“As

5    a general rule courts and agencies are not required to make

6    findings on issues the decision of which is unnecessary to the

7    results they reach.”).

8            For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is

9    DENIED in part and DISMISSED in part.

10                                 FOR THE COURT:
11                                 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk

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