Case Name: Jairo Mejia VEGA, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent; Jairo Alberto Mejia-Vega, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. Lynch, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-07-15
Citations: 609 F. App'x 513
Docket Number: Nos. 11-70161, 11-71551
Parties: Jairo Mejia VEGA, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent. Jairo Alberto Mejia-Vega, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. Lynch, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: KOZINSKI and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges and SINGLETON, Senior District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 609
Pages: 513–514

Head Matter:
Jairo Mejia VEGA, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent. Jairo Alberto Mejia-Vega, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. Lynch, Attorney General, Respondent.
Nos. 11-70161, 11-71551.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 4, 2015.
Filed July 15, 2015.
Stacy Tolchin, Law Offices of Stacy Tol-chin, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
Lynda Do, Kathryn McKinney, Oil, Karen Y. Stewart, Esquire, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: KOZINSKI and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges and SINGLETON, Senior District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable James K. Singleton, Senior District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Jairo Mejia Vega seeks relief from the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) reinstatement of his prior order of removal and its denial of his motion to reopen. We deny his petitions for review.
1. Our review of a reinstatement order is limited to constitutional claims and questions of law where a petitioner can demonstrate a "gross miscarriage of justice" in the prior proceedings. Villa-Anguiano v. Holder, 727 F.3d 873, 877 (9th Cir.2013); Garcia de Rincon v. Dep't of Homeland Sec., 539 F.3d 1133, 1137-38 (9th Cir.2008). Mejia Vega has failed to demonstrate a "gross miscarriage of justice" because the BIA properly sent notice of its decision to the detention center where Mejia Vega was confined. Moreover, Mejia Vega has failed to show prejudice. See Morales-Izquierdo v. Gonzales, 486 F.3d 484, 496 (9th Cir.2007) (en banc) (as amended). The BIA's denial of Mejia Vega's appeal from the deportation order issued in ab-sentia was not "arbitrary, irrational, or contrary to law," Singh v. I.N.S., 295 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2002) (internal quotation marks omitted), because Mejia Vega did not show "that [his] failure to appear was because of exceptional circumstances." 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(b)(5)(C)(i).
2. We review the BIA's denial of a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion, Movsisian v. Ashcroft, 395 F.3d 1095, 1098 (9th Cir.2005), and we lack jurisdiction to review the BIA's failure to exercise its sua sponte authority to reopen. Mejia-Hernandez v. Holder, 633 F.3d 818, 823-24 (9th Cir.2011). Contrary to Mejia Vega's contention, the BIA, in denying Mejia Vega's motion, did not impose any technical definition of due diligence, but simply held that in light of Mejia Vega's presence in the United States since March 1999, he had not shown "reasonable diligence" in ascertaining the status of his case or seeking relief from the BIA's February 1999 order. Mejia Vega has not presented a sufficient factual basis for holding that this decision was an abuse of discretion, and he has not shown that the BIA's failure to explicitly deny his request that it exercise its sua sponte authority, if judicially reviewable at all, was an abuse of discretion.
The petitions for review are DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.