20-1257 Solano-Sanchez v. Garland BIA A202 075 479/480/481/490

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT=S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.

At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 1st day of November, two thousand twenty- two.

PRESENT: DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Chief Judge, BETH ROBINSON, MYRNA PÉREZ, Circuit Judges. _____________________________________

ERIKA MARISOL SOLANO-SANCHEZ, JAQUELINE ARIANA CARDOZA-SOLANO, MANUEL ALEXANDER VALENCIA- SOLANO, MANUEL ENRIQUE VALENCIA- DURAN, Petitioners, 1

v. 20-1257 NAC MERRICK B. GARLAND, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL,

1The motion to amend the caption is GRANTED and the Clerk’s Office is instructed to amend the official caption as reflected here. Respondent. _____________________________________

FOR PETITIONERS: Jillian M. Dume, Labrada Dume & Associates, New York, NY.

FOR RESPONDENT: Brian Boynton, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Brianne Whelan Cohen, Senior Litigation Counsel; Rebecca Hoffberg Phillips, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC.

UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a

Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision, it is hereby

ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the petition for review

is DENIED IN PART and DISMISSED IN PART.

Petitioners Erika Marisol Solano-Sanchez, Jaqueline

Ariana Cardoza-Solano, Manuel Alexander Valencia-Solano,

Manuel Enrique Valencia-Duran, natives and citizens of El

Salvador, seek review of a March 18, 2020 decision of the BIA

denying their motion to reopen their removal proceedings. In

re Erika Marisol Solano-Sanchez, et al., Nos. A 202 075

479/480/481/490 (B.I.A. Mar. 18, 2020). We assume the

parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural

history.

We review the BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen for

2 abuse of discretion. Ali v. Gonzales,

(2d

Cir. 2006) (per curiam). It is undisputed that Petitioners’

2019 motion was untimely because they filed it more than 90

days after their removal orders became final in 2017. See

8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i) (providing a 90-day deadline for

motions to reopen). The time for filing a motion to reopen

may be equitably tolled if a movant establishes that he or

she received ineffective assistance of counsel. See Iavorski

v. INS,

(2d Cir. 2000). The BIA did not

abuse its discretion in declining to equitably toll the time

because Petitioners failed to show they suffered prejudice

due to their former counsel’s representation in the

underlying proceedings. See Rabiu v. INS,

(2d Cir. 1994) (requiring a showing “that competent counsel

would have acted otherwise” and that the petitioner “was

prejudiced by . . . counsel’s performance” (citation

omitted)). Although Petitioners alleged that counsel should

have raised additional arguments, they did not identify what

arguments could or should have been made. Thus, they did not

demonstrate that counsel “could have made a strong showing in

support of [their] application.”

3 Because Petitioners did not demonstrate that the time

limitation should be equitably tolled, their “motion to

reopen could only be considered upon exercise of the [BIA’s]

sua sponte authority.” Mahmood v. Holder,

(2d Cir. 2009). We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s

“entirely discretionary” decision declining to reopen

proceedings sua sponte. Ali,

.

For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is

DENIED IN PART and DISMISSED IN PART.

FOR THE COURT: Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk of Court

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