Legal Opinion
Mejia-Ramaja v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 20, 2015No. 14-1970PPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The sole issue in this immigration case is whether the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) abused its discretion in declining to' reopen the petitioner’s removal proceedings. After careful consideration, we conclude that the BIA acted well within the realm of its discretion. Accordingly, we deny the petition for judicial review.
We briefly rehearse the travel of the case. The petitioner, José Miguel Mejia-Ramaja, is a Guatemalan national. He entered the United States without inspection in 2003. Roughly two years later, federal authorities instituted removal proceedings…
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