Melesio-Rodriguez v. Sessions

Manion, Circuit Judge.

An immigration judge ordered Petitioner Claudia Melesio-Rodriguez removed to Mexico because she had committed multiple controlled-substance offenses. Petitioner accepted the removal order as final and waived her right to appeal it. Nevertheless, she almost simultaneously appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals and filed a motion for reconsideration with the immigration judge. Petitioner never asked us to review the Board's dismissal of her first appeal. This petition challenges the Board's eventual dismissal of her reconsideration appeal.

Petitioner principally…