Perez-Covarrubias v. Holder

ORDER

Eloy Perez-Covarrubias, a 37-year-old native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding an immigration judge’s denial of his motion to reopen removal proceedings conducted in absentia. We deny the petition.

Perez-Covarrubias lived in the United States for 15 years without detection by immigration authorities. He first entered the United States in 1996, briefly returned to Mexico in 2008, and then reentered the United States without inspection later that year. In April 2011, while Perez-Covarru-bias was in jail on a charge of…