Opinion
No. 05-75859.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed.R.App.P. 34(a)(2).
Filed August 4, 2009.
Anselmo Gamez Hernandez, Orange, CA, pro se.
CAC-District Counsel, Esquire, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles, CA, Richard M. Evans, Esquire, Assistant Director, Susan Houser, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Agency No. A095-175-962.
Before: WALLACE, LEAVY, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Anselmo Gamez Hernandez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying his application for cancellation of removal for failure to establish ten years of continuous physical presence in the United States. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. Reviewing for substantial evidence, Gutierrez v. Mukasey, 521 F.3d 1114, 1116 (9th Cir. 2008), we deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the BIA's conclusion that Gamez Hernandez did not meet the continuous physical presence requirment because testimony shows that he knowingly and voluntarily accepted administrative voluntary departure in 1997, thereby interrupting his accrual of physical presence. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229b (b)(1)(A); see also Gutierrez, 521 F.3d at 1117-18.
We lack jurisdiction to review Gamez Hernandez's due process contention because he failed to raise that issue before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir. 2004) (requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies).