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Uhunoman IGHODARO, also known as Nicholas Ighodaro, also known as John Doe, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 04-60188.
    Summary Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Decided Sept. 29, 2005.
    
      Joyce A. Shatteen, Dallas, TX, for Petitioner.
    Thomas Ward Hussey, Director, Margaret Kuehne Taylor, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Barry Joseph Pettinato, U.S. Department of Justice Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, Anne M. Estrada, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Dallas, TX, Caryl G. Thompson, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service District Directors Office, New Orleans, LA, for Respondent.
    Alberto R. Gonzales, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Pro Se Respondent.
    Before JOLLY, JONES, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Uhunoman Ighodaro petitions this court for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order denying his applications for cancellation of removal and adjustment of status. Ighodaro argues that the IJ erred in denying his application for cancellation of removal because 181 of the 211 days that he spent in jail in connection with his two assault convictions constituted pretrial detention and did not therefore occur “as a result of conviction” as required by 8 U.S.C. § 1101(f)(7). He further argues that the IJ erred in considering his criminal record when reviewing his application for adjustment of status and that the IJ erred in finding that he had filed numerous frivolous applications for immigration benefits. These arguments were not administratively exhausted and, thus, they are not considered by this court. See Wang v. Ashcroft, 260 F.3d 448, 452-53 (5th Cir.2001). Ighodaro’s argument that his due process rights were violated at the hearing before the IJ is also unexhausted and not adequately briefed. See Wang, 260 F.3d at 452-53; Yohey v. Collins, 985 F.2d 222, 224-25 (5th Cir.1993); Soadjede v. Ashcroft, 324 F.3d 830, 833 (5th Cir.2003).

In addition, we cannot glean from the petition for review whether Ighodaro is complaining that the IJ failed to rule on his application for a waiver of excludability under INA § 212(h) or that the IJ denied this application but failed to give reasons for its denial. He provides no legal authority for his assertion that the IJ was required to give reasons for denying an application for a waiver of excludability. Accordingly, we consider any challenge regarding his application for a waiver of excludability abandoned. See Yohey, 985 F.2d at 224-25; Soadjede, 324 F.3d at 833; see also Westover v. Reno, 202 F.3d 475, 481 (1st Cir.2000).

Ighodaro argues that he has a statutory right to an administrative appeal in his deportation proceedings and that the BIA’s ability to affirm without an opinion has resulted in mass production appellate review that is review in name only. This argument is without merit. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(b); Albathani v. INS, 318 F.3d 365, 376, 378-79 (1st Cir.2003). Ighodaro further argues that his case did not meet the BIA’s requirements for issuance of an affirmance without opinion pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(e)(4). Because Ighodaro has not shown any error by the IJ, he has failed to show that there was error with respect to the BIA’s summary affirmance. To the extent Ighodaro argues that the summary affirmance violated his due process rights, the argument is without merit. See Soadjede, 324 F.3d at 832-33.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.