Sergio Fajardo Sotelo Prisca Ramirez Aleman Yadira Betzave Fajardo Aleman v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

FARRIS, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners challenge the Board of Immigration Appeals’ denial of their motion to reopen deportation proceedings. Their motion was made in an attempt to avail themselves of the class action settlement approved in Barahona-Gomez v. Ashcroft, 243 F.Supp.2d 1029 (N.D.Cal.2002). That settlement permitted eligible immigrants to apply for suspension of deportation under the law as it existed prior to the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009 (1996), as amended by Pub.L. No. 104-302, 110 Stat. 3656 (1996).…