Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2011-06-24 00:01:26+00
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                                  NOT FOR PUBLICATION                          JUN 23 2011

                                                                           MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                        UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                                 FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

 AWAD ABDELRAHAM ALY,                                    No. 08-71936

              Petitioner,                                Agency No. A095-632-557

   v.
                                                         MEMORANDUM*
 ERIC H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General

              Respondent.

                            On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                                Board of Immigration Appeals

                                   Submitted June 10, 2011**
                                     Pasadena, California

Before: KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, IKUTA, Circuit Judge, and BOLTON,*** District
Judge.

        Awad Abdelraham Aly, a native and citizen of Egypt, petitions for review of

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
        **
           This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral
argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
        ***
              The Honorable Susan R. Bolton, District Judge for the District of
Arizona, sitting by designation.
a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying Aly’s motion to

reconsider the denial of his appeal of a prior motion to reopen. We deny the petition

in part and dismiss in part.

      First, in the proceedings before the BIA, Aly did not challenge the decisions of

the IJ or the BIA to construe his earlier motion as a motion to reopen. Therefore, Aly

did not exhaust his argument that the BIA erred in construing his earlier motion, and

we lack jurisdiction to consider his argument. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(d)(1); Barron v.

Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir. 2004). The BIA properly construed Aly’s

second motion as a motion to reopen and denied it as an impermissible second motion

to reopen. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c); see also Iturribarria v. INS, 321 F.3d 889, 895-96

(9th Cir. 2003).

      Second, to the extent Aly’s motion could be construed as a motion to

reconsider, the BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion. Because Aly

failed to adequately raise a challenge to the BIA’s denial of his motion based on its

determination that Aly failed to rebut the presumption of proper delivery of notice, he

has forfeited his right to challenge that denial. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d

1256, 1259 (9th Cir. 1996) (noting that issues in the opening brief not supported by

argument are deemed abandoned). In addition, Aly’s motion did not specify any error

of fact or law, and the evidence submitted by Aly was not sufficient to overcome the

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presumption of effective service. Cf. Sembiring v. Gonzales, 499 F.3d 981, 988-90

(9th Cir. 2007) (describing evidence sufficient to overcome presumption of effective

service); Salta v. INS, 314 F.3d 1076, 1079 (9th Cir. 2002) (same).

      Finally, the BIA considered the pending fraud charge only in evaluating Aly’s

incentives to attend the removal proceedings. The record does not indicate that the

BIA impermissibly relied on any assumptions about Aly’s guilt.

      PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.

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