Amadu Mohamed Koroma v. MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 22-1225
AMADU MOHAMED KOROMA,
Petitioner,
v.
MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Submitted: November 18, 2022 Decided: December 6, 2022
Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and KING, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
ON BRIEF: Buxton Reed Bailey, BUXTON R. BAILEY, P.C., Raleigh, North Carolina,
for Petitioner. Brian M. Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Zoe
Heller, Senior Litigation Counsel, Jonathan Robbins, Assistant Director, Office of
Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Amadu Mohamed Koroma, a native and citizen of Sierra Leone, petitions for review
of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying Koroma’s motion for
reconsideration of the Board’s prior order dismissing Koroma’s appeal of the immigration
judge’s decision pretermitting his application for cancellation of removal and ordering
Koroma removed to Sierra Leone. Upon review of the record, we discern no abuse of
discretion in the Board’s rationale for denying the underlying motion for reconsideration.
See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(a) (2022); Mejia-Velasquez v. Garland, 26 F.4th 193, 205 (4th Cir.
2022) (providing standard of review and explaining that the Board abuses its discretion
only if it “acted arbitrarily, irrationally, or contrary to law” (internal quotation marks
omitted)). Accordingly, we deny the petition for review for the reasons stated by the Board.
See In re Koroma (B.I.A. Feb. 25, 2022). We dispense with oral argument because the
facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and
argument would not aid the decisional process.
PETITION DENIED

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