NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 21a0339n.06 No. 19-4219 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT LUAI NAJEEB HANNA HELAL; ) FILED ) Jul 15, 2021 AMANI NASEEM MICHAI HELAL; ) DEBORAH S. HUNT, Clerk IZIS LUAI NAJEEB HELAL; MAJD ) LUAI NAJEEB HELAL; ZEID LUAI ) NAJEEB HELAL, ) Petitioners, ON PETITION FOR REVIEW FROM ) THE UNITED STATES BOARD OF ) v. IMMIGRATION APPEALS ) ) MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney OPINION ) General, ) Respondent. ) ) BEFORE: GIBBONS, STRANCH, and BUSH, Circuit Judges. JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge. Petitioners, Luai Najeeb Hanna Helal (Mr. Helal), his wife Amani Naseem Michai Helal (Mrs. Helal), and their children seek review of the denial by the Board of Immigration Appeals of their motions to reopen removal proceedings. The Helals applied for asylum and withholding of removal. The Immigration Judge (IJ) denied the application and ordered the Helals removed from the United States to Jordan. A.R. 178, Summary Decision of the Immigration Judge. The BIA dismissed the Helals’ appeal and denied later motions to remand based on changed country conditions and ineffective assistance of counsel. A.R. 101–03, 2008 BIA Decision; A.R. 3–7, 2019 BIA Decision. This petition for review followed. Because the BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying the Helals’ motions to reopen, we DENY the Helals’ petition for review. No. 19-4219, Helal, et al. v. Garland I. BACKGROUND A. Factual Background The Helals are practicing Christians and citizens of Jordan. Mr. Helal entered the United States through Detroit, Michigan, in 2002 under a nonimmigrant business visa with authorization to remain for one month. Later in the year, his wife and children were admitted at Detroit as nonimmigrant visitors with authorization to remain in the United States for six months. More than six months later, the Department of Homeland Security served the family with a Notice to Appear charging them as removable under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(1)(B) for remaining in the United States for longer than permitted. Mr. and Mrs. Helal applied for asylum, listing each other and their children as derivatives on their applications, and also applied for withholding of removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act and under the regulations implementing the Convention Against Torture. In their applications and testimony, they alleged that their family would be persecuted in Jordan because of their Christian faith. See Helal v. Holder, 357 F. App’x 647, 649 (6th Cir. 2009). B. Procedural History In September 2007, the IJ denied the Helals’ applications for protection and relief and ordered the family removed to Jordan. The Helal family appealed the IJ’s decision to the BIA. No separate applications for relief from removal were filed on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Helal’s then-minor children. In November 2008, the BIA dismissed the Helals’ appeal, upholding the IJ’s determinations that the asylum applications were untimely and that the Helals failed to demonstrate that they had experienced harm rising to the level of persecution or that they would be persecuted or tortured in Jordan …
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