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182109P.pdf   06/27/2019  Jose Luis Mendez-Gomez  v.  William P. Barr
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-2109
   Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals   
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Arnold and Erickson, Circuit Judges] Petition for Review - Immigration. The court lacked jurisdiction to review the reinstatement of a prior removal order as the issue had not been exhausted; on claim that DHS violated his due process rights by continuing to question him after he requested an attorney, petitioner could not show prejudice because the presence of an attorney would not have changed petitioner's status as an alien who illegally reentered the U.S. following the entry of a removal order, which are the only issues in a reinstatement proceeding; in order to qualify for withholding of removal, petitioner had to show that the Guatemalan government would be unable or unwilling to protect him from the person threatening him harm over a bad debt; the IJ found against petitioner on this issue, and he failed to raise the issue before the BIA; as a result, he had not exhausted his administrative remedies on the issue, and it could not be reviewed; petitioner failed to raise any meaningful argument on his CAT claim before the BIA, and the court would not address the unexhausted claim.