Legal Opinion
Ramirez Matias v. Sessions
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 8, 2017No. 16-2474PPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Juan Ramirez Matías (“Ramirez”) challenges the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) denial of his motion to exercise its sua sponte authority to reopen his case and grant his request for cancellation of removal. We find that even if we have jurisdiction to consider his appeal, we must still deny Ramirez’s petition.
BACKGROUND
Ramirez is no stranger to this court: in 2014, he petitioned for review of the BIA’s denial of his application for cancellation of removal (as well as some other forms of relief that are not relevant to this appeal). Ramirez-Matias v.…
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