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Case: 22-60333          Document: 00516726781             Page: 1      Date Filed: 04/26/2023

               United States Court of Appeals
                    for the Fifth Circuit                                       United States Court of Appeals
                                       ____________                                      Fifth Circuit

                                                                                       FILED
                                        No. 22-60333                               April 26, 2023
                                      Summary Calendar
                                                                                  Lyle W. Cayce
                                      ____________
                                                                                       Clerk

   Maria Estela Iglesias-Bonilla; Jonatan Stevan Bonilla-
   Hernandez,

                                                                                 Petitioners,

                                              versus

   Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General,

                                                                                Respondent.
                       ______________________________

                          Petition for Review of an Order of the
                              Board of Immigration Appeals
                                Agency No. A208 982 500
                                Agency No. A208 982 501
                       ______________________________

   Before Jones, Haynes, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
           Maria Estela Iglesias-Bonilla and her son Jonatan Stevan Bonilla-
   Hernandez, 1 natives and citizens of El Salvador, petition for review of the

          _____________________
           *
               This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
           1
            Because Bonilla-Hernandez, a minor, is a rider on and derivative beneficiary of
   his mother’s application for relief, we refer herein only to Iglesias-Bonilla.
Case: 22-60333      Document: 00516726781          Page: 2    Date Filed: 04/26/2023

                                    No. 22-60333

   decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying Iglesias-
   Bonilla’s motion to reopen and terminate. We review the BIA’s decision
   “under a highly deferential abuse-of-discretion standard.” Garcia v. Garland,
   28 F.4th 644, 646 (5th Cir. 2022) (internal quotation marks and citation
   omitted).
          Citing Niz-Chavez v. Garland, 141 S. Ct. 1474 (2021), and Pereira v.
   Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), Iglesias-Bonilla argues that the notices to
   appear failed to provide the immigration court with jurisdiction and violated
   due process because they did not state the date and time of the hearings.
   Circuit precedent forecloses the jurisdictional argument.         See Castillo-
   Gutierrez v. Garland, 43 F.4th 477, 480 (5th Cir. 2022); Garcia, 28 F.4th at
   646-48. Because the BIA acted within its discretion in denying Iglesias-
   Bonilla’s claims on the merits, we need not consider her argument regarding
   equitable tolling. See INS v. Bagamasbad, 429 U.S. 24, 25 (1976).
          We lack jurisdiction to consider Iglesias-Bonilla’s challenge to the
   BIA’s refusal to reopen her case sua sponte. See Djie v. Garland, 39 F.4th
   280, 288 (5th Cir. 2022); Qorane v. Barr, 919 F.3d 904, 911 (5th Cir. 2019).
   Accordingly, we dismiss the petition for review in part for lack of jurisdiction
   as to sua sponte reopening and otherwise deny the petition.
          DISMISSED in part; DENIED in part.

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