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12-2970
         Alle v. Holder
                                                                                       BIA
                                                                               A074 776 108
                           UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                               FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
                                    SUMMARY ORDER
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 1            At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals
 2       for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United
 3       States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York,
 4       on the 15th day of January, two thousand fourteen.
 5
 6       PRESENT:
 7                DENNIS JACOBS,
 8                GERARD E. LYNCH,
 9                RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR.,
10                     Circuit Judges.
11       _____________________________________
12
13       NEIMA ABDILLAHI ALLE,
14                Petitioner,
15
16                        v.                                    12-2970
17                                                              NAC
18       ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., UNITED STATES
19       ATTORNEY GENERAL,
20                Respondent.
21       _______________________________________
22
23       FOR PETITIONER:               Genet Getachew, Brooklyn, New York.
24
25       FOR RESPONDENT:               Stuart F. Delery, Acting Assistant
26                                     Attorney General; Jennifer L.
27                                     Lightbody, Assistant Director;
28                                     Channah F. Norman, Trial Attorney,
29                                     Office of Immigration Litigation,
30                                     United States Department of Justice,
31                                     Washington, D.C.
 1       UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a

 2   decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), it is

 3   hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the petition for

 4   review is DENIED.

 5       Neima Abdillahi Alle, a native and citizen of Somalia,

 6   seeks review of a June 19, 2012, decision of the BIA denying

 7   her motion to reopen.   In re Neima Abdillahi Alle, No. A074

 8   776 108 (B.I.A. June 19, 2012).   We assume the parties’

 9   familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history

10   of this case.

11       We review the BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen for

12   abuse of discretion, mindful of the Supreme Court’s

13   admonition that such motions are “disfavored.”    Ali v.

14   Gonzales, 448 F.3d 515, 517 (2d Cir. 2006) (quoting INS v.

15   Doherty, 502 U.S. 314, 323 (1992)).    When the BIA considers

16   relevant evidence of country conditions in evaluating a

17   motion to reopen, we review the BIA’s factual findings under

18   the substantial evidence standard.    See Jian Hui Shao v.

19   Mukasey, 546 F.3d 138, 169 (2d Cir. 2008).

20       An alien must file a motion to reopen within 90 days of

21   the agency’s final administrative decision.    8 U.S.C.

22   § 1229a(c)(7)(C); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2).    Although Alle’s

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 1   motion was indisputably untimely because it was filed more

 2   than nine years after the agency’s final order of removal,

 3   see 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i), there is no time

 4   limitation for filing a motion to reopen if it is “based on

 5   changed country conditions arising in the country of

 6   nationality or the country to which removal has been

 7   ordered, if such evidence is material and was not available

 8   and would not have been discovered or presented at the

 9   previous proceeding,” 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii); see

10   also 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii).

11       We find no error in the BIA’s determination that Alle

12   failed to demonstrate materially changed country conditions

13   excusing the untimely filing of her motion to reopen because

14   the record evidence demonstrated continued systematic

15   violence against women in Somalia since at least 1991, and

16   did not indicate that conditions had materially worsened

17   since Alle’s 1999 hearing.   See 8 U.S.C.

18   § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii); see also Matter of S-Y-G-, 24 I. & N.

19   Dec. 247, 253 (B.I.A. 2007) (“In determining whether

20   evidence accompanying a motion to reopen demonstrates a

21   material change in country conditions that would justify

22   reopening, [the BIA] compare[s] the evidence of country

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 1   conditions submitted with the motion to those that existed

 2   at the time of the merits hearing below.”).     Accordingly,

 3   the BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Alle’s

 4   motion to reopen as untimely, and we must deny the petition

 5   for review.   See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C).

 6       Alle reinstated this case after it was tolled pursuant

 7   to In re Immigration Petitions for Review Pending in the

 8   United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 702

 9 F.3d 160, 160-61 (2d Cir. 2012).     Nothing in this order

10   should inhibit the government from considering whether

11   pursuing Alle’s removal to Somalia is low priority

12   warranting administrative closure.

13       For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is

14   DENIED.
15
16                               FOR THE COURT:
17                               Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk

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