Opinion ID: 31299
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Heading: navarro's petition for review of the denial of his motion for reconsideration

Text: 19 An alien has thirty days from the date of the final order of removal to file a petition for review. 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1) (2000). This deadline is jurisdictional. Guirguis v. INS, 993 F.2d 508, 509 (5th Cir.1993). 20 While Navarro mailed his petition for review of the denial of his motion for reconsideration to this court within the thirty-day deadline, that petition was not received and filed until the deadline had passed. The statute clearly states that the petition must be filed within the thirty-day period. In Guirguis, the petitioner gave his petition to an immigration detention officer to be mailed within the statutory period. Id. at 509. When the petition did not arrive at the clerk's office to be filed until one day past the statutory period, we found it to be untimely, refusing to apply the more lenient rules available for pro se prisoners filing a notice of appeal. Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 276, 108 S.Ct. 2379, 101 L.Ed.2d 245 (1988) (finding timely petition for appeal given by pro se prisoner to prison official within the statutory period). 21 Given that we were unwilling to extend the period for a pro se petitioner in detention, we see no reason to do so for a petitioner who was assisted by counsel. Navarro's petition for review of the Board's denial of reconsideration of his motion to reopen his removal proceedings is dismissed as untimely. We do not, therefore, address his argument (made in his motion for reconsideration but not in his motion to reopen) that under St. Cyr he should be eligible to apply to the Attorney General for discretionary relief.