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Delatorre v. Sessions

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Feb 22, 2017
No. 15-71254 (9th Cir. Feb. 22, 2017)

Opinion

No. 15-71254

02-22-2017

SOFIA SALDIVAR DELATORRE, AKA Sofia Delatorre, AKA Sofia Saldivar, Petitioner, v. JEFF B. SESSIONS, Attorney General, Respondent.


NOT FOR PUBLICATION

Agency No. A088-710-624 MEMORANDUM On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Before: GOODWIN, FARRIS, and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

Sofia Saldivar Delatorre, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order denying her motion to reconsider the BIA's prior dismissal of her appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying her application for special rule cancellation of removal for battered spouses pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(2). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reconsider. Cano-Merida v. INS, 311 F.3d 960, 964 (9th Cir. 2002). We deny the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Delatorre's motion to reconsider, where she failed to establish any error of fact or law in the BIA's prior order. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(b)(1) (a motion to reconsider must specify errors of fact or law in a prior decision); 8 U.S.C. § 1101(f) (defining good moral character "[f]or the purposes of this Act"); cf. Romero-Ochoa v. Holder, 712 F.3d 1328, 1330-32 (9th Cir. 2013) (concluding that 8 U.S.C. § 1101(f)(7) was constitutional in the context of cancellation of removal and voluntary departure under 8 U.S.C. §§ 1229b(b)(1), 1229c(b)(1)).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.


Summaries of

Delatorre v. Sessions

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Feb 22, 2017
No. 15-71254 (9th Cir. Feb. 22, 2017)
Case details for

Delatorre v. Sessions

Case Details

Full title:SOFIA SALDIVAR DELATORRE, AKA Sofia Delatorre, AKA Sofia Saldivar…

Court:UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

Date published: Feb 22, 2017

Citations

No. 15-71254 (9th Cir. Feb. 22, 2017)