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Parties Involved:
Loretta Lynch, U. S. Attorney General
Respondent
Guadalupe Ortiz-Sandoval
Petitioner

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-60395

Summary Calendar

GUADALUPE ORTIZ-SANDOVAL,

Petitioner

v.

LORETTA LYNCH, U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL,

Respondent

Petition for Review of an Order of the

Board of Immigration Appeals

BIA No. A077 180 164

Before DAVIS, SOUTHWICK, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.

STEPHEN A. HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge:*

Guadalupe Ortiz-Sandoval petitions this court to review the 

administrative reinstatement of her prior order of removal. She challenges the 

determination by the immigration judge under 8 C.F.R. § 208.31 that she 

lacked a reasonable fear of persecution or torture in Mexico. According to 

Ortiz-Sandoval, she showed under § 208.31(c) that she belonged to a particular 

social group comprised of her family members. She did not exhaust this claim 

 

* 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.

United States Court of Appeals

Fifth Circuit

FILED

October 6, 2016

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

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administratively, however, and we lack jurisdiction to consider it. See 8 U.S.C. 

§ 1252(d)(1); Hernandez-De La Cruz v. Lynch, 819 F.3d 784, 786 (5th Cir. 

2016). 

Additionally, because the underlying order of removal rests on OrtizSandoval’s prior conviction for an aggravated felony under 8 U.S.C. 

§ 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii), we lack jurisdiction to consider her challenge to the finding 

that she failed to show a link between the Zetas and Mexican public officials

as required to show torture under 8 C.F.R. § 208.18(a)(1). See § 1252(a)(2)(C); 

Hernandez-De La Cruz, 819 F.3d at 786-87. We need not reach her challenge 

to the alternate determination that a fear of being killed is not a fear of torture. 

The petition for review is DISMISSED.

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