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Case: 23-60356        Document: 00517040841             Page: 1      Date Filed: 01/23/2024

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                              United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                       Fifth Circuit
                                      No. 23-60356
                                    Summary Calendar                                 FILED
                                    ____________                               January 23, 2024
                                                                                Lyle W. Cayce
   Nelson Ivan Castellano-Mercado,                                                   Clerk

                                                                                Petitioner,

                                            versus

   Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General,

                                                                              Respondent.
                     ______________________________

                        Petition for Review of an Order of the
                            Board of Immigration Appeals
                              Agency No. A079 044 052
                     ______________________________

   Before Elrod, Oldham, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Nelson Ivan Castellano-Mercado, a native and citizen of Honduras,
   petitions this court for review of an order of the Board of Immigration
   Appeals (BIA) denying his motion to remand and his second motion to
   reopen.     With one exception for battered family members, which is
   inapplicable here, an alien may file only one motion to reopen. 8 U.S.C.

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 23-60356      Document: 00517040841          Page: 2   Date Filed: 01/23/2024

                                    No. 23-60356

   § 1229a(b)(5)(C)(ii), (c)(7)(A), (c)(7)(C)(iv); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.23(b)(4)(ii);
   see Djie v. Garland, 39 F.4th 280, 282–88 & n.2 (5th Cir. 2022). When, as is
   the case here, a motion to reopen is number-barred and the number bar is
   raised, the resulting petition for review should be denied. Djie, 39 F.4th at
   287–88; see Maradia v. Garland, 18 F.4th 458, 462 n.6 (5th Cir. 2021).
   Castellano-Mercado fails to brief, and thus waives any challenge he may have
   had to, the denial of his motion for remand. Fed. R. App. P. 28(a)(8)(A);
   see Chambers v. Mukasey, 520 F.3d 445, 448 n.1 (5th Cir. 2008).
   Consequently, insofar as Castellano-Mercado petitions for review of the
   denial of his second motion to reopen and his motion to remand, the petition
   is DENIED. See Djie, 39 F.4th at 287–88.
          The decision whether to reopen proceedings sua sponte is a
   discretionary one that this court lacks jurisdiction to review. Qorane v. Barr,
   919 F.3d 904, 911–12 (5th Cir. 2019). Consequently, insofar as Castellano-
   Mercado petitions for review of the BIA’s decision not to reopen his
   proceedings sua sponte, the petition is DISMISSED. See id.
                                  DENIED in part and DISMISSED in part.

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