Guevara-De Rivera v. Garland ( 2023 )


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  • Case: 22-60025     Document: 00516617709         Page: 1     Date Filed: 01/20/2023
    United States Court of Appeals
    for the Fifth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals
    Fifth Circuit
    No. 22-60025
    FILED
    January 20, 2023
    Summary Calendar
    Lyle W. Cayce
    Clerk
    Delmi Guevara-De Rivera; Kevin Isaac Guevara-Rivera;
    Yesli Adeli Guevara-Rivera; Yuri Roxana Guevara-
    Rivera,
    Petitioners,
    versus
    Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General,
    Respondent.
    Petition for Review of an Order of the
    Board of Immigration Appeals
    Agency No. A209 421 259
    Agency No. A209 421 260
    Agency No. A209 421 261
    Agency No. A209 421 262
    Before Jones, Haynes, and Oldham, Circuit Judges.
    Per Curiam:*
    *
    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    opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited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: 22-60025      Document: 00516617709           Page: 2     Date Filed: 01/20/2023
    No. 22-60025
    Delmi Guevara-De Rivera, and her three minor children Kevin Isaac
    Guevara-Rivera, Yesli Adeli Guevara-Rivera, and Yuri Roxana Guevara-
    Rivera, all natives and citizens of El Salvador, petition for review of the denial
    by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) of their motion to reopen the
    removal proceedings for which Guevara-De Rivera was present. We review
    the BIA’s legal conclusions de novo and the BIA’s denial of a motion to
    reopen for abuse of discretion. Ramos-Portillo v. Barr, 
    919 F.3d 955
    , 958 (5th
    Cir. 2019).
    We have expressly rejected the petitioners’ arguments on review that
    a notice to appear without the date and time of the removal hearing deprives
    the immigration court of jurisdiction or is otherwise defective outside of the
    in-absentia or stop-time rule context. See Garcia v. Garland, 
    28 F.4th 644
    ,
    646-48 (5th Cir. 2022). Thus, we need not address their arguments regarding
    equitable tolling. See INS v. Bagamasbad, 
    429 U.S. 24
    , 25 (1976). We lack
    jurisdiction to review the petitioners’ challenge that the BIA erred in failing
    to exercise its sua sponte authority to reopen their case. See Mejia v.
    Whitaker, 
    913 F.3d 482
    , 490 (5th Cir. 2019).
    The petition for review is therefore DENIED in part and
    DISMISSED in part.
    2