USCA1 Opinion

                         [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]



                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                         FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

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No. 97-2364





                        AHMED ALEXANDER KAMARA,



                              Petitioner,



                                  v.



                IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE,



                              Respondent.



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                  ON PETITION FOR REVIEW OF AN ORDER



                  OF THE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS



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                                Before



                        Torruella, Chief Judge,

                   Selya and Stahl, Circuit Judges.



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    Stephen A. Lagana and Lagana & Associates on brief for petitioner.

    Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, David M. McConnell,

Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, and Allen W.

Hausman, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation,

Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, on brief for respondent.





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                            APRIL 16, 1998

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      Per Curiam.  This petition for review is frivolous. 

    Petitioner raises no cognizable challenge to the order of the

    Board of Immigration Appeals finding his appeal untimely. 

    Instead, petitioner attempts to raise claims not addressed in

    that order.  We have no jurisdiction to consider those claims.

        The order is affirmed.  See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1.  The

    stay of deportation granted by this court now is lifted.