Court Opinion

ID: 8439220
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-04 17:17:10.718278+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:48:46.979877
License: Public Domain

MEMORANDUM **
Benjamin Zaguilan Lara, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“U”) order denying cancellation of removal. We dismiss the petition for review.
The IJ concluded that Zaguilan Lara failed to qualify for cancellation of removal, in part because he did not show good moral character. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(l). Zaguilan Lara did not challenge this component of the IJ’s decision before the BIA, or before this court. We lack jurisdiction to review the moral character determination, both because Zaguilan Lara failed to exhaust his administrative remedies and because it is a discretionary determination. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004) (holding that exhaustion is mandatory and jurisdictional); Moran v. Ashcroft, 395 F.3d 1089, 1091 (9th Cir.2005) (recognizing that the court lacks jurisdiction to review discretionary determinations of moral character).
Because the agency’s moral character finding is dispositive, we do not consider his challenge to the agency’s physical presence finding.
The voluntary departure period was stayed, and that stay will expire upon issuance of the mandate. See Desta v. Ashcroft, 365 F.3d 741, 750 (9th Cir.2004).
*366PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED.

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