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Summary: United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit F I L E D IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS December 29, 2005 FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Charles R. Fulbruge III _ Clerk No. 04-61062 Summary Calendar _ LEONOR ESTELA PALACIOS-UMANA, Petitioner, versus ALBERTO R. GONZALES, U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent. _ Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals No. A72 205 863 _ Before JOLLY, DAVIS, and OWEN, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:1 Leonor Estela Palacios-Umana (Palacios) brings th
Summary: United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit F I L E D IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS December 29, 2005 FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Charles R. Fulbruge III _ Clerk No. 04-61062 Summary Calendar _ LEONOR ESTELA PALACIOS-UMANA, Petitioner, versus ALBERTO R. GONZALES, U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL, Respondent. _ Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals No. A72 205 863 _ Before JOLLY, DAVIS, and OWEN, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:1 Leonor Estela Palacios-Umana (Palacios) brings thi..
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United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
F I L E D
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
December 29, 2005
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Charles R. Fulbruge III
_____________________ Clerk
No. 04-61062
Summary Calendar
_____________________
LEONOR ESTELA PALACIOS-UMANA,
Petitioner,
versus
ALBERTO R. GONZALES, U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL,
Respondent.
_________________________________________________________________
Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
No. A72 205 863
_________________________________________________________________
Before JOLLY, DAVIS, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:1
Leonor Estela Palacios-Umana (Palacios) brings this petition
for review contending that the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)
wrongfully refused to reopen her deportation proceedings.
Specifically, she contends that she was given insufficient notice
of her deportation hearing and that her deportation proceedings
should be reopened.2 Reviewing the record for abuse of discretion,
1
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this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except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.
2
Although not cited by her, Palacios appears to be making a
claim under 8 U.S.C. § 1252b(c)(3)(A) (1994), which allows for the
rescission of in absentia orders upon a motion showing “that the
alien did not receive notice” of the time and place of the
I.N.S. v. Doherty,
502 U.S. 314, 324 (1992), we deny the petition
for review for the following reasons:
1. Palacios is a citizen and native of El Salvador who
entered the United States without inspection on July 1, 1995. That
same day Palacios was stopped at an INS checkpoint near Laredo,
Texas. After initially presenting false identification, Palacios
revealed her identity. As a result, the Laredo Border Patrol
personally served Palacios with an Order to Show Cause (OSC)
charging her with deportability as an alien who entered the United
States without inspection.
2. The OSC, which was provided to Palacios in both English
and Spanish, gave Palacios notice of her rights and
responsibilities, including notice of a hearing; the requirement
that Palacios provide an address and/or contact information; and
the consequences resulting from failure to personally appear at the
hearing.3 Additionally, the OSC stated that notice of future
proceedings would be sent to the address provided by the alien.
deportation proceedings.
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Specifically, the OSC provided 1) that there would be a
hearing before an immigration judge no sooner than 14 days after
service of the OSC; 2) that Palacios must be present at the
hearing; 3) that failure to appear would result in an in absentia
deportation order; 4) that Palacios was required by law to provide
“immediately in writing an address (and telephone number, if any)
where” she could be reached; 5) that any change of address must be
given to the court; 6) that all notices of hearings would be mailed
to the address provided; and 7) the location, address, and contact
information of the San Antonio immigration court, along with the
explanation that this would be the court handling her claim.
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Palacios refused to provide any address or contact information.
3. The Laredo Border Patrol additionally provided Palacios
with a change of address form to inform the San Antonio immigration
court of any new or changed contact information. Palacios never
used this form or submitted any contact information to the
appropriate authorities.
4. The applicable notice requirements of 8 U.S.C. §
1252b(c)(2) state that “no written notice shall be required . . .
if the alien has failed to provide the address required.” Thus we
find the OSC personally served on Palacios notified her of her duty
to provide an address under 8 U.S.C. § 1252b(a)(1)(F)(i).4 Because
Palacios failed to provide the address required, she falls within
8 U.S.C. § 1252b(c)(2), and no written notice of the November 2,
1995 deportation hearing was required.5 Thus the BIA did not
abuse its discretion in affirming the denial of Palacios’s motion
to reopen. The petition for review is therefore
DENIED.
4
Palacios additionally contends that the OSC served upon her
was insufficient because it failed to meet the statutory
requirements of a Notice to Appear. This argument is without
merit. A Notice to Appear is a charging document in a removal
proceeding and is governed by differing statutory requirements from
the OSC involved in this deportation proceeding. Thus the OSC’s
compliance with the requirements of a Notice to Appear are
irrelevant.
5
We note that although 8 U.S.C. § 1252b has been since
repealed, the language of the repealing act makes clear that the
requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1252b are applicable in this proceeding.
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