Case Name: Meliton Cervantes SALAZAR, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-05-20
Citations: 519 F. App'x 423
Docket Number: No. 10-70406
Parties: Meliton Cervantes SALAZAR, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: LEAVY, THOMAS, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 519
Pages: 423–424

Head Matter:
Meliton Cervantes SALAZAR, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 10-70406.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted May 14, 2013.
Filed May 20, 2013.
Meliton Cervantes Salazar, Pomona, CA, pro se.
Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Remi Adalemo, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: LEAVY, THOMAS, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Meliton Cervantes Salazar, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order denying his motion to reopen. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the BIA's denial of a motion to reopen. Cano-Merida v. INS, 311 F.3d 960, 964 (9th Cir.2002). We deny the petition for review.
The BIA did not abuse its discretion by denying Cervantes Salazar's motion as untimely, where he filed the motion over two years after the BIA's final order, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and he failed to demonstrate changed conditions in Mexico material to his claims in order to warrant an exception to the deadline, see Najmabadi v. Holder, 597 F.3d 983, 990 (9th Cir. 2010) (holding that a petitioner cannot reopen based on changed country conditions by relying on evidence that simply recounts generalized country conditions without demonstrating that his or her predicament is appreciably different from the dangers faced by fellow citizens). In light of our disposition, we do not reach Cervantes Salazar's remaining contentions regarding his prima facie eligibility for relief.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.