Gerson Echeverria v. MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
GERSON ECHEVERRIA,
Petitioner,
v.
MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney
General,
Respondent.
No. 17-71751
Agency No. A095-750-694
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted December 8, 2022**
Before: WALLACE, TALLMAN, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
Gerson Echeverria, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions pro se for
review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his motion to
reopen removal proceedings and his motion to reconsider the denial of sua sponte
reopening. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
FILED
JAN 13 2023
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

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of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen or to reconsider. Mohammed v.
Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791 (9th Cir. 2005). We deny the petition for review.
Echeverria does not challenge, and therefore waives, the BIA’s
determinations that the motion to reopen and motion to reconsider were untimely,
the motion to reopen was number-barred, he did not establish a regulatory
exception to the time limitation for filing a motion to reopen, and he did not raise a
factual or legal error to warrant reconsideration. See Lopez-Vasquez v. Holder, 706
F.3d 1072, 1079-80 (9th Cir. 2013) (issues not specifically raised and argued in a
party’s opening brief are waived). Echeverria also waives a challenge to the denial
of reopening based on ineffective assistance of counsel and error by the
immigration judge. See Nguyen v. Barr, 983 F.3d 1099, 1102 (9th Cir. 2020)
(petitioner waived review of issue raised for the first time in reply brief).
The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Echeverria’s motion to
reconsider where he failed to identify any error of law or fact in the BIA’s prior
decision. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(b)(1); Ma v. Ashcroft, 361 F.3d 553, 558 (9th Cir.
2004) (“A petitioner’s motion to reconsider must identify a legal or factual error in
the BIA’s prior decision.”).
We do not consider the materials Echeverria references and submits for the
first time in his reply brief that are not part of the administrative record. See Fisher
v. INS, 79 F.3d 955, 963-64 (9th Cir. 1996) (en banc).

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The temporary stay of removal remains in place until the mandate issues.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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