Case Name: Mengistu TAYE, Petitioner, v. Dana James BOENTE, Acting Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-02-02
Citations: 677 F. App'x 836
Docket Number: No. 16-2079
Parties: Mengistu TAYE, Petitioner, v. Dana James BOENTE, Acting Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before WILKINSON, KEENAN, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 677
Pages: 836–837

Head Matter:
Mengistu TAYE, Petitioner, v. Dana James BOENTE, Acting Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 16-2079
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: January 31, 2017
Decided: February 2, 2017
Mengistu Taye, Petitioner Pro Se. Benjamin C. Mizer, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Jessica Eden Burns, Jane Tracey Schaffner, Claire L. Workman, Office of Immigration Litigation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Before WILKINSON, KEENAN, and THACKER, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Mengistu Taye, a native and citizen of Ethiopia, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) denying his motion to reopen. We have reviewed the administrative record and the Board's order and conclude that the Board did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion as untimely and number-barred. See 8 C.F.R. § 1008.2(c)(2) (2016). We therefore deny the petition for review in part for the reasons stated by the Board. See In re Taye (B.I.A. Sept. 7, 2016). We lack jurisdiction to review the Board's refusal to exercise its sua sponte authority to reopen and therefore dismiss this portion of the petition for review. See Mosere v. Mukasey, 552 F.3d 397, 400-01 (4th Cir. 2009).
Accordingly, we deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid 'the decisional process.
PETITION DENIED IN PART; DISMISSED IN PART