ETTIENNE v. Holder

OPINION

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

Nora Ettienne, a citizen of Trinidad, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ denial of her application for cancellation of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b. The Board, adopting the reasoning of the immigration judge, denied Ettienne’s petition on the basis that she had not demonstrated that her United States citizen husband and children would suffer exceptional and extremely unusual hardship as a result of her removal. Although Ettienne’s case is very sympathetic, the explicit preclusion of review of cancellation denials applies notwithstanding…