FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION JUN 10 2010
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
JOSE ANTONIO MIRANDA- No. 08-73743
NAVARETE,
Agency No. A094-199-512
Petitioner,
v. MEMORANDUM *
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted May 25, 2010 **
Before: CANBY, THOMAS, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
Jose Antonio Miranda-Navarete, a native and citizen of El Salvador,
petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order
dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his
*
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).
application for a waiver of inadmissibility under § 212(h) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(h). We dismiss the petition for review.
We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s determination that Miranda-
Navarete failed to establish that denying him admission would result in extreme
hardship to his United States citizen mother and children. See 8 U.S.C. § 1182(h);
Romero-Torres v. Ashcroft, 327 F.3d 887, 888 (9th Cir. 2003) (“[A]n exceptional
and extremely unusual hardship determination is a subjective discretionary
judgment that has been carved out of our appellate jurisdiction.”) (internal
quotation marks omitted).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED.
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