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Parties Involved:
William P. Barr
Respondent
Jose Alfredo Flores Quezada
Petitioner

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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JOSE ALFREDO FLORES QUEZADA, 

 Petitioner,

v.

WILLIAM P. BARR, United States 

Attorney General, 

 Respondent.

No. 19-9592

(DHS No. 0568)

(DHS Homeland Security)

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ORDER

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Before TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge, BRISCOE, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

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This matter is before the court on the jurisdictional show cause order it issued on 

November 4, 2019, pro se petitioner Jose Alfred Flores-Quezada’s response, and the 

parties’ briefs. Upon consideration of these materials, the district court docket, and the 

applicable law, the court concludes it lacks jurisdiction to consider Mr. Flores-Quezada’s 

petition for the reasons set forth below.

The petition for review states Mr. Flores-Quezada’s intent to challenge “the final 

administrative order of removal entered by the U.S. Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement (‘ICE’) pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1228(b)” and further states that “[a] copy of 

the order on Form I-851A is attached.” However, the petition attaches a Form I-294 

“Warning to Alien Ordered Removed or Deported,” which warning is dated March 29, 

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

March 25, 2020

Christopher M. Wolpert

Clerk of Court

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2012, and an “Order of the Immigration Judge,” which order is dated March 28, 2012. 

The Order of the Immigration Judge specifically advises that any appeal “is due by 

4-27-12.”

This court issued a jurisdictional show cause order and directed Mr. FloresQuezada to file a written response addressing any basis in law for this court’s exercise of 

appellate jurisdiction. In response, Mr. Flores-Quezada argued that the court has 

jurisdiction to review the March 28, 2012 order and “the 10/14/2019 Dismissal/Denial by 

BIA/DHS of my motion to reopen and to sua sponte vacate invalidating my 2012 

Removal Order.” Mr. Flores-Quezada did not attach an October 14, 2019 order, nor does 

the agency record for this proceeding contain an October 14, 2019 order or an order of 

any other date dismissing his motion to reopen.

Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 15(a)(2)(C) requires a petition for review to 

“specify the order or part thereof to be reviewed.” And, “[a]lthough a pro se litigant’s 

pleadings are to be construed liberally and held to a less stringent standard than formal 

pleadings drafted by lawyers, this court has repeatedly insisted that pro se parties follow 

the same rules of procedure that govern other litigants.” Garrett v. Selby Connor Maddux 

& Janer, 425 F.3d 836, 840 (10th Cir. 2005) (citation, brackets, and internal quotation 

marks omitted). 

Mr. Flores-Quezada fails to identify or produce an administratively final order 

with respect to which his petition for review is or could be timely. See 8 U.S.C. 

§ 1252(b)(1) (requiring a petition to review an order or removal to “be filed not later than 

30 days after the date of the final order of removal”); Gonzalez-Alarcon v. Macias, 884 

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F.3d 1266, 1271 (10th Cir. 2018 ) (timely filing of a petition for review is “mandatory 

and jurisdictional”); cf. Flores-Quezada v. Barr, No. 19-9551 (10th Cir. Aug. 28, 2019) 

(dismissing untimely petition for review of BIA orders entered in August 2018 and 

December 2018 and noting that 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D) “does not restore jurisdiction to 

consider issues raised in petitions that are untimely” (citation and internal quotation 

marks omitted)).

Accordingly, this court lacks jurisdiction over the petition for review. See Fed. R. 

App. P. 15(a)(2)(C); § 1252(b)(1).

APPEAL DISMISSED.

Entered for the Court

CHRISTOPHER M. WOLPERT, Clerk

by: Lisa A. Lee

 Counsel to the Clerk

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