NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MAY 13 2019 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT MOISES RODRIGUEZ-VALLA, No. 15-70926 Petitioner, Agency No. A200-827-142 v. MEMORANDUM* WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Argued and Submitted April 11, 2019 Seattle, Washington Before: W. FLETCHER, CALLAHAN, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges. Petitioner Moises Rodriguez-Valla (“Rodriguez-Valla”), a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) denial of his motion for reconsideration, motion for reopening, and motion for sua sponte reopening of his removal proceedings. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a) and we deny the petition. 1. Rodriguez-Valla filed a motion to reopen after the BIA dismissed his * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. appeal from the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) removal and voluntary departure order. The BIA denied the motion to reopen on the ground that Rodriguez-Valla was ineligible for adjustment of status because he had failed to comply with his voluntary departure order and there was no evidence that the departure order had been terminated. Rodriguez-Valla did not timely petition this court for review of that denial. Instead, he filed a motion for reconsideration with the BIA, asserting that his voluntary departure period had been extended by his local Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) office and attaching exhibits in support of that claim. Treating Rodriguez-Valla’s motion as a motion for reconsideration, a second motion for reopening, and a motion for sua sponte reopening, the BIA denied all three forms of relief. We find the BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying either reconsideration or reopening, and that Rodriguez-Valla fails to identify a legal or constitutional error with the BIA’s denial of sua sponte reopening. 2. The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying reconsideration on the ground that Rodriguez-Valla had “not identified a material error of fact or law” with its prior denial of the first motion to reopen. The BIA also correctly declined to consider Rodriguez-Valla’s new claim and evidence regarding the alleged extension of his voluntary departure period as part of its reconsideration decision on the basis that “a motion to reconsider is not a vehicle to raise issues that should have been presented previously.” See Socop–Gonzalez v. INS, 272 F.3d 1176, 2 1180 n.2 (9th Cir. 2001) (en banc) (emphasis in original) (“The purpose of a motion to reconsider is not to raise new facts, but rather to demonstrate that the IJ or the BIA erred as a matter of law or fact.”). The record before the BIA when Rodriguez-Valla filed his first motion to reopen did not indicate that his voluntary departure had been extended or terminated. Accordingly, the BIA did not err in concluding that Rodriguez-Valla’s first motion to reopen, which was filed after the expiration of his voluntary departure period, had no ...
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