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Date Created: 2023-05-12 00:00:29.248067+00
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Case: 22-60068        Document: 00516747227             Page: 1      Date Filed: 05/11/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
                                     ____________
                                                                               United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                        Fifth Circuit
                                      No. 22-60068
                                    Summary Calendar                                   FILED
                                    ____________                                     May 11, 2023
                                                                                 Lyle W. Cayce
   Sergio Orellana-Espinosa,                                                          Clerk

                                                                                 Petitioner,

                                            versus

   Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General,

                                                                               Respondent.
                     ______________________________

                        Petition for Review of an Order of the
                            Board of Immigration Appeals
                              Agency No. A078 965 065
                     ______________________________

   Before Stewart, Duncan, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Sergio Orellana-Espinosa, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions
   for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)
   dismissing his appeal from an order of the Immigration Judge denying his
   motion to reopen his proceedings based on lack of notice. Motions to reopen
   are “disfavored” and are reviewed under “a highly deferential abuse-of-

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-60068      Document: 00516747227          Page: 2    Date Filed: 05/11/2023

                                    No. 22-60068

   discretion standard.” Spagnol-Bastos v. Garland, 19 F.4th 802, 806 (5th Cir.
   2021) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).          This standard
   requires a ruling to stand so long as it is not “capricious, irrational, utterly
   without foundation in the evidence based on legally erroneous interpretations
   of statutes or regulations, or based on unexplained departures from
   regulations or established policies.”     Id. (internal quotation marks and
   citation omitted). Orellana-Espinosa’s conclusional assertions concerning
   actual notice and his reliance on a materially distinguishable case fail to meet
   this demanding standard. Insofar as he raises arguments concerning the
   correctness of the addresses in his notice to appear, we lack jurisdiction over
   these claims because they were not first presented to the BIA. See Martinez-
   Guevara v. Garland, 27 F.4th 353, 359-60 (5th Cir. 2022); 8 U.S.C.
   § 1252(d)(1).    The petition for review is DENIED in part and
   DISMISSED in part for want of jurisdiction.

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