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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 13-1528 LEONEL SOLIS-ALVAREZ, Petitioner, v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Submitted: April 25, 2014 Decided: May 20, 2014 Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and DUNCAN and FLOYD, Circuit Judges. Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Farhad Sethna, LAW OFFICES OF FARHAD SETHNA, Akron, Ohio, for Petitioner. Stuart F. Delery, Assistant
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 13-1528 LEONEL SOLIS-ALVAREZ, Petitioner, v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Submitted: April 25, 2014 Decided: May 20, 2014 Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and DUNCAN and FLOYD, Circuit Judges. Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Farhad Sethna, LAW OFFICES OF FARHAD SETHNA, Akron, Ohio, for Petitioner. Stuart F. Delery, Assistant A..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 13-1528
LEONEL SOLIS-ALVAREZ,
Petitioner,
v.
ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals.
Submitted: April 25, 2014 Decided: May 20, 2014
Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and DUNCAN and FLOYD, Circuit
Judges.
Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Farhad Sethna, LAW OFFICES OF FARHAD SETHNA, Akron, Ohio, for
Petitioner. Stuart F. Delery, Assistant Attorney General, Anh-
Thu P. Mai-Windle, Senior Litigation Counsel, Jeffrey R. Meyer,
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for
Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Leonel Solis-Alvarez, a native and citizen of Mexico,
petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’
(“Board”) order dismissing his appeal of the immigration judge’s
order denying his application for cancellation of removal. See
8 U.S.C. § 1229b (2012). In his brief, the Attorney General
renews his argument that we lack jurisdiction over this petition
for review.
Because cancellation of removal is a form of relief
that lies within the discretion of the Attorney General, “no
court shall have jurisdiction to review any judgment regarding
the granting of relief under section . . . 1229b,” except that
the court of appeals retains the ability to review colorable
“constitutional claims or questions of law” raised upon a
petition for review. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i), (a)(2)(D)
(2012); see also Sorcia v. Holder,
643 F.3d 117, 124-25 (4th
Cir. 2011); Gomis v. Holder,
571 F.3d 353, 358 (4th Cir. 2009).
Upon review, we agree with the Attorney General that the legal
arguments and constitutional claims advanced by Solis-Alvarez
are not sufficiently colorable as to invoke this court’s
jurisdiction under § 1252(a)(2)(D). See, e.g., Jian Pan v.
Gonzales,
489 F.3d 80, 84 (1st Cir. 2007) (“To trigger our
jurisdiction [over a petition for review under the REAL ID Act],
the putative constitutional or legal challenge must
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be . . . colorable; that is, the argument advanced must, at the
very least, have some potential validity.”); Arias v. U.S.
Attorney Gen.,
482 F.3d 1281, 1284 & n.2 (11th Cir. 2007)
(explaining that, “[f]or a constitutional claim to be colorable,
the alleged violation need not be substantial, but the claim
must have some possible validity” (internal quotation marks
omitted)).
Accordingly, we dismiss the petition for review. We
dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal
contentions are adequately presented in the materials before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
DISMISSED
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