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Case: 19-60392     Document: 00515791487         Page: 1     Date Filed: 03/23/2021

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

                                                                               FILED
                                                                         March 23, 2021
                                  No. 19-60392
                                Summary Calendar                          Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                               Clerk

   Juan Jose Chavez-Torres, also known as Juan Jose Chavez,

                                                                      Petitioner,

                                       versus

   Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General,

                                                                     Respondent.

                      Petition for Review of an Order of the
                          Board of Immigration Appeals
                              BIA No. A075 223 956

   Before Higginbotham, Jones, and Costa, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam:*
          Juan Jose Chavez-Torres, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for
   review the denial by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) of his motion
   to reopen. Relying on Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), Chavez-
   Torres argues the immigration court had no jurisdiction over his removal

          *
            Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 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   opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited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 Circuit Rule 47.5.4.
Case: 19-60392      Document: 00515791487           Page: 2    Date Filed: 03/23/2021

                                     No. 19-60392

   proceedings because his notice to appear was defective in that it failed to state
   the time and place of his initial removal hearing. We have rejected such
   arguments, concluding that Pereira is limited to cases involving the stop-time
   rule in removal proceedings, which is not at issue here. See Pierre-Paul v.
   Barr, 930 F.3d 684, 689-90 (5th Cir. 2019), cert. denied, 140 S. Ct. 2718
   (2020). Because Chavez-Torres’s claim is foreclosed by Pierre-Paul, he fails
   to show that the BIA abused its discretion in denying his motion to reopen
   based on Pereira. See Mejia v. Barr, 952 F.3d 255, 259 (5th Cir. 2020).
          The petition for review is DENIED.

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