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314 F. App'x 738

Vasquez-Barron v. Holder

U.S. Courts of Appeals

Decided March 18, 2009

U.S. Courts of Appeals · decided 2009-03-18

Relies on Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Navarro-Miranda v. Ashcroft

Decided 2009-03-18

PER CURIAM: *

¶1Israel Vasquez-Barron (Vasquez) petitions this court for review of the refusal by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to reopen his removal proceedings sua sponte. Vasquez challenges the BIA’s determination that it lacked jurisdiction to reopen the proceedings because Vasquez had already been deported. Vasquez’s attempt to have his removal proceedings reopened is foreclosed by Navarro-Miranda v. Ashcroft, 330 F.3d 672, 675-76 (5th Cir.2003), where we upheld the BIA’s interpretation of 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(d) (formerly 8 C.F.R. § 3.2(d)) as removing the BIA’s jurisdiction to reopen the removal proceedings of a deported alien. In any event, Vasquez’s underlying claim based on INS v. St. Cyr, 533 U.S. 289, 121 S.Ct. 2271, 150 L.Ed.2d 347 (2001), was untimely. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.44(h).

¶2The petition for review is DENIED.

¶3 Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.

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