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Case: 12-60796       Document: 00512386202         Page: 1     Date Filed: 09/25/2013

           IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                    FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT  United States Court of Appeals
                                                    Fifth Circuit

                                                                            FILED
                                                                        September 25, 2013
                                     No. 12-60796
                                   Summary Calendar                        Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                Clerk

VICTOR DANIEL CAMEY, also known as Camay, Victor Daniel,

                                                  Petitioner

v.

JANET NAPOLITANO, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY,

                                                  Respondent

                           Petition for Review of an Order
                      of the Department of Homeland Security
                                  No. A029 579 591

Before DAVIS, BENAVIDES, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
       The petitioner, Victor Daniel Camey, was deported pursuant to an order
of an Immigration Judge in 1994. He seeks review of the September 11, 2012,
decision of the Department of Homeland Security to reinstate that removal
pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(5). Camey argues that § 1231(a)(5), which was
enacted in 1996 as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), is impermissibly retroactive as applied to

       *
         Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.
R. 47.5.4.
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his case because he reentered the United States in 1995, before the statute was
enacted. In Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales, 548 U.S. 30, 33 (2006), the Supreme
Court held that § 1231(a)(5) “applies to those who entered before IIRIRA and
does not retroactively affect any right of, or impose any burden on,” the alien.
Accordingly, Camey’s argument challenging the retroactive effect of § 1231(a)(5)
is foreclosed by Fernandez-Vargas.
      Camey also contends that § 1231(a)(5) was impermissibly retroactively
applied to him because the statute creates a new disability to his application for
adjustment of status that he alleges was filed by his son in 2010. He contends
that he filed for a labor certificate in 1996, before the effective date of IIRIRA
and sought adjustment of status in 2010, when his son filed an application.
Because there is no indication that he was eligible to apply for adjustment of
status prior to the effective date of IIRIRA, his claim that IIRIRA is
impermissibly retroactive because it imposes new liabilities on him is barred by
this court’s holding in Silva Rosa v. Gonzales, 490 F.3d 403, 409-10 (5th Cir.
2007).
      Finally, Camey contends that his due process rights were violated by his
arrest, detention, and interrogation. Aliens have a Fifth Amendment right to
due process in deportation proceedings. Ojeda-Terrazas v. Ashcroft, 290 F.3d
292, 302 (5th Cir. 2002). Although Camey also argues that he was denied his
Sixth Amendment right to counsel, an alien does not have a Sixth Amendment
right to counsel in removal proceedings. Mai v. Gonzales, 473 F.3d 162, 165 (5th
Cir. 2006). A claim of the denial of counsel in removal proceedings implicates
only rights under due process. Id.
      This court reviews due process challenges to immigration proceedings de
novo. De Zavala v. Ashcroft, 385 F.3d 879, 883 (5th Cir. 2004). “To prevail on
such a challenge, an alien must make an initial showing of substantial
prejudice.”   Id. (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).        Camey’s
conclusory allegations before this court are insufficient to show that if given the

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procedural safeguards he seeks, “the result in this case would be . . . different.”
Ojeda-Terrazas, 290 F.3d at 302.
      Accordingly, Camey’s petition for review is DENIED.

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