Opinion
No. 12-73535
12-28-2015
RICARDO RUVALCABA-ORTIZ, Petitioner, v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
Agency No. A088-735-099 MEMORANDUM On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted December 7, 2015 Seattle, Washington Before: HAWKINS and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and GLEASON, District Judge.
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 Sharon L. Gleason, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.
Ricardo Ruvalcaba-Ortiz, 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 decision finding him inadmissible and ineligible for cancellation of removal, asylum, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.
Ruvalcaba-Ortiz concedes he is inadmissible because he was never lawfully admitted to the United States. We lack jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i) to review the BIA's discretionary decision to deny Ruvalcaba-Ortiz's application for cancellation of removal and therefore dismiss that part of his petition. We deny the petition as to Ruvalcaba-Ortiz's untimely asylum claim because the Board's decision that the asylum application was untimely was supported by substantial evidence. Al Ramahi v. Holder, 725 F.3d 1133, 1138 (9th Cir. 2013) ("We review the BIA's determination for substantial evidence and will uphold its decision if it 'is supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record considered as a whole.' We may reverse the BIA only 'when the evidence in the record compels a reasonable factfinder to conclude that the [BIA's] decision is incorrect.'" (alteration in original) (quoting Singh v. Holder, 656 F.3d 1047, 1051-52, 1056 (9th Cir. 2011))). Ruvalcaba-Ortiz waived any appeal of the Board's decision regarding withholding of removal and CAT relief because he failed to adequately raise them in his brief, so we deny the petition with respect to those claims. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir. 1996). In any event, the Board's denial of withholding of removal and CAT relief was supported by substantial evidence. Al Ramahi, 725 F.3d at 1138.
The BIA found Ruvalcaba-Ortiz precluded from cancellation of removal because he "had not established that his qualifying relatives would suffer exceptional and extremely unusual hardship should he be removed to Mexico." Because Ruvalcaba-Ortiz conceded inadmissiblity for being present without being admitted or paroled and we do not have jurisdiction to review the hardship determination, we do not reach Ruvalcaba-Ortiz's argument to this court that his conviction for falsely claiming U.S. citizenship does not render him inadmissible or ineligible for cancellation of removal. --------
PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED in part; DENIED in part.