Case: 18-60525 Document: 00514930044 Page: 1 Date Filed: 04/25/2019 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit No. 18-60525 FILED April 25, 2019 Summary Calendar Lyle W. Cayce Clerk SANDRA LORENA ROMERO-SORTO, Petitioner v. WILLIAM P. BARR, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals BIA No. A200 062 355 Before BARKSDALE, ELROD, and HO, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: * Sandra Lorena Romero-Sorto, a native and citizen of El Salvador and proceeding pro se, entered the United States unlawfully in 2005 and in 2006 was ordered, in absentia, to be removed. In 2016, an immigration judge denied her motion to sua sponte reopen the removal proceedings and rescind the removal order. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissed the appeal in November 2016. * Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4. Case: 18-60525 Document: 00514930044 Page: 2 Date Filed: 04/25/2019 No. 18-60525 In December 2017, Romero moved the BIA to reopen the removal proceedings sua sponte under its regulatory authority. She claimed changed- and-exceptional circumstances warranted reopening. Her motion was denied in June 2018, with the BIA’s ruling, inter alia, the motion was untimely. Here, Romero does not dispute her motion was untimely. We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s decision not to reopen an action sua sponte because the BIA has complete discretion to deny untimely regulatory motions to reopen, and we “ha[ve] no legal standard by which to judge the [BIA’s] ruling”. Gonzalez-Cantu v. Sessions, 866 F.3d 302, 306 (5th Cir. 2017), cert. denied, 138 S. Ct. 677 (2018); see also Mejia v. Whitaker, 913 F.3d 482, 490 (5th Cir. 2019). DISMISSED. 2 18-60525 Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ca5 5th Cir. Sandra Romero-Sorto v. William Barr, U. S. Atty Ge 25 April 2019 Immigration Unpublished 8c63808eb14348ee939a19da1f408dc75488f71d
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