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                              NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           SEP 21 2010

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                              FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ARTURO LOPEZ GUITIERREZ,                          No. 08-70078

               Petitioner,                        Agency No. A073-969-082

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

               Respondent.

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

                             Submitted September 13, 2010 **

Before:        SILVERMAN, CALLAHAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

       Arturo Lopez Guitierrez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review

of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an

immigration judge’s decision denying his motion to reopen based on ineffective

assistance of counsel. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, Iturribarria v. INS, 321 F.3d
889, 894 (9th Cir. 2003), and we deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for

review.

         The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Lopez Guitierrez’s motion

to reopen as untimely because he filed the motion more than ten years after the IJ’s

November 14, 1996, order, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.23(b)(4)(iii), and Lopez Guitierrez

failed to establish that he acted with the due diligence required for equitable

tolling, see Iturribarria, 321 F.3d at 897; cf. Ghahremani v. Gonzales, 498 F.3d
993, 1000 (9th Cir. 2007) (due diligence where petitioner made “unbroken efforts”

to remedy his immigration status).

         Lopez Guitierrez also argues that the BIA ignored his request to reopen sua

sponte. We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s refusal to reopen removal

proceedings sua sponte. See Toufighi v. Mukasey, 538 F.3d 988, 993 n.8 (9th Cir.

2008).

         We lack jurisdiction to review Lopez Guitierrez’s contention regarding his

underlying removal order because he did not exhaust that contention before the

BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir. 2004).

         Lopez Guitierrez’s remaining contention is not persuasive.

         PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.

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