UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 18-2162 EVELYN NTUI TAKANG, Petitioner, v. WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Submitted: November 15, 2019 Decided: January 3, 2020 Before AGEE and QUATTLEBAUM, Circuit Judges, and TRAXLER, Senior Circuit Judge. Petition denied in part, dismissed in part by unpublished per curiam opinion. Ronald D. Richey, LAW OFFICE OF RONALD D. RICHEY, Rockville, Maryland, for Petitioner. Joseph H. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General, Stephen J. Flynn, Assistant Director, Lindsay Donahue, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. __________________ Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Evelyn Ntui Takang, a native and citizen of the Republic of Cameroon, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying her second motion to reopen her removal proceedings. For the following reasons, we deny the petition in part and dismiss it in part. I. In December 2002, the BIA dismissed Takang’s appeal from the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) order finding her removable and denying her applications for asylum and withholding of removal. Takang’s applications were based on her claimed past persecution in Cameroon due to her political beliefs and her role as an activist for the secession of that country’s Anglophone regions. 1 The IJ found that Takang’s claims were frivolous and not credible, pointing to several discrepancies in her account and her overall demeanor during the deportation hearing, which he described as “non-sincere,” “affective,” and “evasive.” A.R. 401–02. Soon after dismissing Takang’s appeal, the BIA denied her first motion to reopen. Takang did not petition this Court for review of either decision. Over fifteen years later, in September 2018, Takang filed the underlying motion to 1 Following Germany’s defeat in World War I, the colony of German Kamerun was divided between France and Great Britain, with the French administering the bulk of the territory and the British controlling the northwest and southwest regions. A.R. 57–64. In 1961, the Anglophone areas gained their independence, with the northwest region opting to join Nigeria and the southwest region reunifying with the already-independent Francophone region. Id. Despite this reunification, the Anglophone and Francophone divisions have persisted. A.R. 55, 64–70, 739. 2 reopen with the BIA, alleging that a material change in conditions in Cameroon affecting members of her proffered social group warranted granting the untimely and number-barred motion to reopen. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii); accord 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii). The BIA denied Takang’s motion for three independent reasons: (1) it did not comply with the BIA’s procedural requirements; (2) it was filed outside of the prescribed 90-day time bar and Takang had not submitted sufficient evidence of changed country conditions to qualify for an exception; and (3) this case did not warrant the BIA’s exercise of its authority to reopen Takang’s deportation proceedings sua sponte. Takang timely filed a petition for review. This Court has jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. ...
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