Alvaro-De Games v. Mukasey

MEMORANDUM **

This is a petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) denial of petitioner’s motion to reopen immigration proceedings.

Petitioner’s motion to reopen was filed more than fifteen years after the BIA’s May 4, 1992 decision ordering him removed, far beyond the ninety days allowed by regulation. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2 (c)(2). The BIA therefore did not abuse its discretion in denying petitioner’s motion to reopen as untimely. See Cano-Merida v. INS, 311 F.3d 960, 964 (9th Cir.2002). Accordingly, respondent’s motion for summary disposition in part is granted because the questions raised by this petition for review are so insubstantial as not to require further argument. See United States v. Hooton, 693 F.2d 857, 858 (9th Cir.1982) (per curiam).

To the extent that petitioner seeks review of the BIA’s decision not to reopen *589 proceedings sua sponte in order to consider his argument that, under current Ninth Circuit caselaw, the government did not meet its burden of proof concerning the conviction at issue in his deportation proceedings, this court lacks jurisdiction over this petition for review. See Ekimian v. INS, 308 F.3d 1153, 1159 (9th…