Maira Argueta-Martinez v. William Barr, U.

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Decided: November 21, 2019
• Docket: 18-60800
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

Case: 18-60800 Document: 00515207943 Page: 1 Date Filed: 11/21/2019

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

FILED No. 18-60800 November 21, 2019 Summary Calendar Lyle W. Cayce Clerk MAIRA DE LOS ANGELES ARGUETA-MARTINEZ; CARLOS STEVEN CARRANZA-ARGUETA,

Petitioners

v.

WILLIAM P. BARR, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL,

Respondent

Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals BIA No. A208 742 678 BIA No. A208 742 679

Before JOLLY, JONES, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: * Maira De Los Angeles Argueta-Martinez and her minor son, Carlos Steven Carranza-Argueta, are natives and citizens of El Salvador. After an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denied their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”), the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissed their appeal of the IJ’s decision and

* 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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.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. Case: 18-60800 Document: 00515207943 Page: 2 Date Filed: 11/21/2019

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denied their motions to reconsider and reopen. They now petition this court for review of the BIA’s decision regarding their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT relief. They also challenge the BIA’s denial of their motion to reopen and reconsider. The petitioners did not argue before the BIA, as they do here, that their notices to appear were defective under Pereira v. Sessions, 138 S. Ct. 2105 (2018), and therefore, that the IJ lacked jurisdiction over their immigration proceedings. Because the petitioners failed to exhaust their administrative remedies as to this issue, we lack jurisdiction to consider it. Omari v. Holder, 562 F.3d 314, 320–21 (5th Cir. 2009). We likewise lack jurisdiction to consider the BIA’s April 11, 2017 order dismissing the petitioners’ appeal of the IJ’s decision denying relief because they did not file a petition for review of that order. Guevara v. Gonzales, 450 F.3d 173, 176 (5th Cir. 2006) (citing Stone v. INS, 514 U.S. 386, 390 (1995)); 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1). With respect to the motion to reopen, we lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s decision that the petitioners were not entitled to a sua sponte reopening of their immigration proceedings. See Enriquez-Alvarado v. Ashcroft, 371 F.3d 246, 248–50 (5th Cir. 2004), overruled on other grounds by Mata v. Lynch, 135 S. Ct. 2150, 2155–56 (2015). We also lack jurisdiction to consider the petitioners’ newly raised, and therefore unexhausted, argument that they were entitled to equitable tolling of the applicable limitations period in connection with their motion to reopen pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7). See Omari, 562 F.3d at 320–21. Because the petitioners do not address the denial of the motion to reconsider, they have abandoned the issue by failing to adequately brief it. Soadjede v. Ashcroft, 324 F.3d 830, 833 (5th Cir. 2003). Accordingly, the petition for review is DENIED IN PART and DISMISSED IN PART for lack of jurisdiction.