Tayron Youdices Figueroa- Mezquita v. ERIC H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General

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).
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
TAYRON YOUDICES FIGUEROA-
MEZQUITA,
Petitioner,
v.
ERIC H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 07-70513
Agency No. A095-123-140
MEMORANDUM *
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted January 11, 2010**
Before: BEEZER, TROTT, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
Tayron Youdices Figueroa-Mezquita, a native and citizen of El Salvador,
petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order
dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying his
FILED
JAN 19 2010
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U .S. C OU R T OF APPE ALS

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application asylum and withholding of removal. We dismiss the petition for
review.
Figueroa-Mezquita failed to challenge the IJ’s denial of asylum and
withholding of removal before the BIA. Therefore, these issues are not exhausted,
and we lack jurisdiction to review them. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674,
676–77 (9th Cir. 2004) (holding that a petitioner’s failure to raise an issue to the
BIA generally constitutes a failure to exhaust, thus depriving this court of
jurisdiction to consider the issue).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED.

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