UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 13-2540
ELIAS TRAORE,
Petitioner,
v.
ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals.
Submitted: June 3, 2014 Decided: June 17, 2014
Before WILKINSON and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON,
Senior Circuit Judge.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Randall L. Johnson, JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Arlington,
Virginia, for Petitioner. Stuart F. Delery, Assistant Attorney
General, Shelley R. Goad, Assistant Director, Julia J. Tyler,
Office of Immigration Litigation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Elias Traore, a native and citizen of Mali, petitions
for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
denying his motion to reconsider. Because Traore fails to raise
any arguments that meaningfully challenge the propriety of the
Board’s denial of his motion to reconsider in the argument
section of his brief, we find that he has failed to preserve any
issues for review. See Fed. R. App. P. 28(a)(9)(A) (“[T]he
argument . . . must contain . . . appellant’s contentions and
the reasons for them, with citations to the authorities and
parts of the record on which the appellant relies.”); Edwards v.
City of Goldsboro, 178 F.3d 231, 241 n.6 (4th Cir. 1999)
(“Failure to comply with the specific dictates of [Rule 28] with
respect to a particular claim triggers abandonment of that claim
on appeal.”). Accordingly, we deny the petition for review for
the reasons stated by the Board. See In re: Traore (B.I.A. Nov.
25, 2013). We dispense with oral argument because the facts and
legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials
before this court and argument would not aid the decisional
process.
PETITION DENIED
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