Gomez-Medina v. Holder, Jr.

LYNCH, Chief Judge.

Yenny Adriana Gomez-Medina, a Colombian national and citizen, petitions for review of a September 21, 2010, final order of removal by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). Petitioner and her counsel ignored and failed to comply with direct orders from the Immigration Judge (IJ), who found their purported justifications for non-compliance far from adequate. The IJ denied a last-minute request to continue the long-scheduled hearing and deemed Gomez-Medina’s applications for relief abandoned. The BIA agreed on all accounts. We deny her petition.

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On June 14, 2006, Customs and…