Court Opinion

ID: 8418856
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-03 19:06:10.137236+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:48:20.941229
License: Public Domain

MEMORANDUM***
Nicolas Flores, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his motion to reopen his deportation proceedings. Because the transitional rules apply, see Kalaw v. INS, 133 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir. 1997), we have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a). We review the denial of a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion. Sharma v. INS, 89 F.3d 545, 547 (9th Cir.1996). We deny the petition for review.
The IJ did not abuse her discretion in denying Flores’s motion to reopen as untimely under 8 C.F.R. § 3.23(b)(1) (2002), because the record shows it was filed on December 6, 2001, more than 90 days after the January 7, 2000 final order of deportation. See Taniguchi v. Schultz, 303 F.3d 950, 955 (9th Cir.2002). We do not consider the possibility of ineffective assistance of counsel or equitable tolling, because Flores did not raise these issues on appeal to the BIA, see id., and Flores has waived these contentions by failing to present them to this court, see id.
We lack jurisdiction to consider Flores’s contentions regarding the merits of the underlying order of deportation, because the petition for review is not timely as to that order. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1258 (9th Cir.1996).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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