Joseph Ngure v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.

Joseph Ngure petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying his claims for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. We hold that the determination whether the BIA properly employed its streamlined “affirmance without opinion” procedure with respect to Ngure’s claims is committed to agency discretion by law. Reviewing the decision of the immigration judge (“IJ”), which was affirmed without opinion by the BIA, we conclude that this court lacks jurisdiction to review the IJ’s determination…