Case Name: Rafaela Mercedes GOMEZ-DELEON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2008-08-29
Citations: 75 F. App'x 11
Docket Number: No. 02-2457
Parties: Rafaela Mercedes GOMEZ-DELEON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 75
Pages: 11–11

Head Matter:
Rafaela Mercedes GOMEZ-DELEON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent-Appellee.
No. 02-2457.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Aug. 29, 2008.
Rafaela Mercedes Gomez-DeLeon, Niantie, Connecticut, pro se.
James K. Filan, Jr., United States Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut, Bridgeport, Connecticut, for Appellee.
Present: FEINBERG, KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, and MURTHA, District of Vermont.
The Honorable J. Garvan Murtha, Judge of the United States District Court, Vermont, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
ON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the judgment of the District Court is AFFIRMED.
Petitioner-Appellant, Rafaela Mercedes Gomez-DeLeon, pro se, appeals from an order and subsequent judgment of the district court's dismissal of her 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition. For substantially the same reasons stated in the district court opinion, we affirm the district court's dismissal of Gomez-DeLeon's § 2241 petition. In addition, with respect to Gomez-DeLeon's argument that she is entitled to a compassionate hearing, that issue was not raised in the district court and cannot be raised for the first time on appeal. See Singleton v. Wulff, 428 U.S. 106, 120-21, 96 S.Ct. 2868, 49 L.Ed.2d 826 (1976). Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is hereby AFFIRMED.