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213770P.pdf 11/16/2022 Jose Llanas-Trejo v. Merrick B. Garland
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-3770
Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Erickson and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Petition for Review - Immigration. The court has jurisdiction to review
the denial of a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion; in considering
the petitioner's motion to reopen on the issue of hardship, the agency
erred in its analysis of the evidence of an injury to the mother of the
petitioner's children, as her injury was relevant to the issue of the
hardship the children would suffer if petitioner was removed; however, the
agency did not err in determining that petitioner had failed to
demonstrate prima facie eligibility for relief as he failed to overcome
the presumption that an applicant for hardship with multiple DUI
convictions lacks good moral character - see Matter of Castillo-Perez, 27
I&N Dec. 664 (AG 2019); as a result, the BIA did not abuse its discretion
in holding petitioner failed to make a prima facie showing of good moral
character with the filing of his motion to reopen.