Opinion
No. 10-72084
11-21-2014
KEVIN GATHERU MBUGUA, Petitioner, v. ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
Agency No. A078-664-601 MEMORANDUM On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted November 19, 2014 San Francisco, California Before: NOONAN, FERNANDEZ, and IKUTA, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
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Kevin Gatheru Mbugua, a native and citizen of Kenya, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) denial of his motion to reopen. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a), and deny the petition for review.
The BIA correctly determined that Mbugua did not meet his burden of submitting evidence showing that country conditions in Kenya had changed in a way that would establish Mbugua's prima facie eligibility for relief from removal. As the BIA stated, the record lacks any evidence supporting Mbugua's claim that his father was killed for political reasons. The BIA's determination that tribal violence in Kenya involving the Kikuyu tribe had ended at the time Mbugua filed his motion is also supported by substantial evidence. Because Mbugua failed to show changed country conditions, his motion to reopen did not qualify for an exception from the ninety-day filing deadline. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i)-(ii); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2)-(3). Accordingly, the BIA did not err in denying Mbugua's motion to reopen as untimely.
PETITION DENIED.