Eliseo Ovalle-Ruiz v. Eric Holder, Jr.

OPINION

KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Immigration officers arrested Petitioner Eliseo Ovalle-Ruiz for being in the United States unlawfully and, that same day, reinstated a prior order of removal from December 2001. In this appeal, Ovalle-Ruiz contests the government’s reinstatement of the December 2001 removal order, arguing that reinstatement was improper because the underlying removal order violated his due process rights and because immigration officers failed to exercise properly them discretion by reinstating the prior removal order without first considering factors favorable to…