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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        DEC 8 2023
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

OSCAR EFRAIN OSORIO RODRIGUEZ,                  No. 22-151
                                                Agency No.
             Petitioner,                        A200-064-017
 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney
General,

             Respondent.

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

                           Submitted December 4, 2023**
                               Pasadena, California

Before: WARDLAW and BUMATAY, Circuit Judges, and BENCIVENGO,
District Judge.***

      Oscar Efrain Osorio Rodriguez (“Osorio”), a native and citizen of El

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      ***
             The Honorable Cathy Ann Bencivengo, United States District Judge
for the Southern District of California, sitting by designation.
Salvador, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”)

decision denying his motion to reopen. We deny in part and dismiss in part the

petition.

      1.     The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Osorio’s motion to

reopen based upon failure to establish materially changed country conditions. See

8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii). The evidence that Osorio submitted in support of his

motion to reopen—his 2019 declaration and the 2018 Human Rights Report for El

Salvador—does not show an appreciably different level of gang violence in El

Salvador when compared to the evidence Osorio submitted at his 2016 hearing.

Moreover, the new evidence describes only “generalized conditions” of crime and

violence and is thus immaterial to the success of Osorio’s petitions. Najmabadi v.

Holder, 597 F.3d 983, 990 (9th Cir. 2010). Thus, Osorio cannot establish that

“circumstances have changed sufficiently that” he, who “previously did not have a

legitimate claim” now does. Malty v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 942, 945 (9th Cir. 2004).

      2.     We lack jurisdiction to review the agency’s decision not to exercise its

sua sponte authority to reopen Osorio’s proceedings. See Lona v. Barr, 958 F.3d

1225, 1227 (9th Cir. 2020) (“BIA denials of sua sponte relief premised on legal or

constitutional error remain the ‘one narrow exception’ to our rule that the agency’s

sua sponte authority is not subject to judicial review.” (quoting Menendez-

Gonzalez v. Barr, 929 F.3d 1113, 1116 (9th Cir. 2019))). Here, the BIA’s decision

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rested on Osorio’s failure to establish “exceptional circumstances,” a benchmark

which “does not provide a sufficiently meaningful standard to permit judicial

review.” Bonilla v. Lynch, 840 F.3d 575, 586 (9th Cir. 2016) (as amended).

Osorio has not identified any “legal or constitutional error” in the BIA’s denial of

sua sponte reopening; as such, “there is nothing left for us to review.” Lona, 958

F.3d at 1235.

      DENIED IN PART AND DISMISSED IN PART.

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