402 F. App'x 151

Valeriy Yuryevich KOSTRABA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

No. 10-1617.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Submitted: Nov. 12, 2010.

Filed: Nov. 17, 2010.

*152Rachel N. Sampong, argued, Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioner.

Scott Baniecke, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Bloomington, MN, Karen Yolanda Drummond, Richard M. Evans, Ilissa M. Gould, Melissa Lynn Nei-man-Kelting, U.S. Department of Justice, argued, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before WOLLMAN, MELLOY, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Valeriy Yuryevich Kostraba, a native and citizen of Ukraine, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which affirmed an immigration judge’s denial of his application for cancellation of removal.1 We conclude that Kostraba’s arguments regarding the BIA’s discretionary denial of cancellation of removal are unreviewable, see Saleheen v. Holder, 618 F.3d 957, 960-62 (8th Cir.2010) (court lacks jurisdiction to review “the ultimately discretionary denial of cancellation of removal”), and that his other arguments are unavailing, see Sanchez v. Holder, 614 F.3d 760, 763 (8th Cir.2010) (where alien concedes removability on one ground, appeals court need not consider correctness of determination that alien is also removable on other ground); Sanchez-Velasco v. Holder, 593 F.3d 733, 737 (8th Cir.2010) (“aliens have no right to due process in the purely discretionary remedy of cancellation of removal”); Munoz-Yepez v. Gonzales, 465 F.3d 347, 349-50 (8th Cir.2006) (grant of discretionary waiver of criminal grounds of excludability did not mean that crimes disappeared from alien’s record for all immigration purposes).

Accordingly, we deny the petition for review.

Kostraba v. Holder
402 F. App'x 151

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Kostraba v. Holder
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Nov 17, 2010
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