Opinion ID: 203763
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The second motion to reopen

Text: In June 2007, Larngar filed a second motion to reopen  the focus of this appeal. Because this motion was similarly untimely, as well as being successive, the burden remained on Larngar to establish the applicability of an exception. Again relying on the changed country circumstances exception, Larngar introduced the same evidence, reiterating the alleged threat that Peal posed to him. But Larngar also identified an additional change in Liberia Peal's reinstatement to his position as Deputy Director of the SSS. [3] The BIA again denied Larngar's motion to reopen. Although acknowledging that Larngar's evidence established that Peal had been reinstated to his government position, the BIA again determined that Larngar failed to establish a change in country circumstances arising in Liberia. In so determining, the BIA relied on its previous decision denying Larngar's first motion to reopen, reasoning that Larngar had merely identified a change in personal circumstances and that such a change was insufficient to qualify him under the changed country circumstances exception. After determining that the exception was inapplicable, the BIA also identified an additional reason for denying Larngar's motion: Moreover, the respondent's filing is insufficient to support reopening on the likelihood of it being found `more likely than not' that the respondent would be tortured at the hands of a government official if returned to Liberia. This timely petition for review followed.