Legal Opinion
MATOS-SANTANA v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 2, 2011No. 10-2373PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, Junior Omar Matos-Santana, is a native and citizen of the Dominican Republic. He seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying his motion to reopen long-closed removal proceedings. The BIA rejected the motion as untimely and declined to exercise its discretionary authority to relieve the petitioner from the time bar. We deny the petition for review.
The relevant facts and travel of this case are susceptible to succinct summarization. The petitioner entered the United States in 1982 and thereafter became a lawful…
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