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Melvin Afredy Meza-Rivera is a native and citizen of Honduras. In March 1993, he entered the United States without inspection. In August 1995, he was deported for a cocaine conviction. Meza-Rivera illegally reentered the United States in September 1995. In 1998, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) again initiated deportation proceedings against Meza-Rivera.

The INS subsequently moved to terminate deportation proceedings against Meza-Rivera so that it could reinstate his prior deportation order pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) § 241(a)(5). Section 241(a)(5) permits the Attorney General to reinstate a prior deportation order against an alien who has been deported, and who then reenters illegally. The Attorney General can reinstate the prior deportation order without affording the alien a hearing of any sort. See Castro-Cortez v. INS, 239 F.3d 1037 (9th Cir. 2001).

The Immigration Judge (“IJ”) granted the INS’s motion and ordered that the proceedings against Meza-Rivera be terminated. Meza-Rivera filed an untimely appeal with the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), which the BIA refused to consider. Meza-Rivera now petitions for review of the BIA’s decision to refuse to consider his appeal.

INA § 242 authorizes this court to review final orders of removal. See id. at 1043-44. Meza-Rivera is not asking that we review a final order of removal against him. Instead, he asks that we review the BIA’s refusal to consider an appeal from an IJ decision to terminate his deportation proceedings. Because Meza-Rivera is not asking us to review a final order of removal, we have no jurisdiction to hear his petition for review.

As a final note, we direct the parties’ attention to Castro-Cortez, which holds that the reinstatement provision, INA § 241(a)(5), does not apply to aliens who reentered the United States before IIRIRA’s effective date, April 1, 1997. Castro-Cortez, at 1040. Meza-Rivera reentered in September 1995, so the reinstatement provision does not apply to him. If the INS wishes to deport Meza-Rivera, it must do so by initiating deportation proceedings against him.

PETITION DISMISSED.