Velasco v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

MEMORANDUM *

Jorge Velasco petitions for review of the denial by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) of his application for relief from deportation pursuant to the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”).1 We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1), and we deny the petition. Because the facts are familiar to the parties, we do not recite them here.

We conclude that reinstatement of Velasco’s 1988 deportation order was proper under 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(5). Velasco does not deny that notice may have been received at the address he had provided to the INS and has not established that the…