Legal Opinion

Garcia-Aguilar v. Sessions

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided January 16, 2019No. 18-1086PPublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Maria Leticia Garcia-Aguilar, is a Mexican national. She seeks judicial review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying her untimely motion to reopen removal proceedings - a motion grounded upon her claim that country conditions in her native land had materially changed, thus making her newly eligible for asylum. After careful consideration, we deny the petition.

We set the stage. The petitioner entered the United States illegally in 2005 near El Paso, Texas. Following a 2007 raid at the factory where she worked, the Department of…

2Cases cited12 opinions

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  4. Roberts v. GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2005
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