UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 12-1993
HADAS ANDU KELATI,
Petitioner,
v.
ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals.
Submitted: January 16, 2013 Decided: February 12, 2013
Before NIEMEYER, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
David R. Saffold, LAW OFFICE OF DAVID R. SAFFOLD, Washington,
D.C., for Petitioner. Stuart F. Delery, Principal Deputy
Attorney General, David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, Tiffany
L. Walters, 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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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:
Hadas Andu Kelati, a native and citizen of Eritrea,
petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals denying her motion to reconsider. Because Kelati fails
to raise any arguments that meaningfully challenge the propriety
of the Board’s denial of her motion to reconsider in the
argument section of her brief, we find that she 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: Kelati (B.I.A. Jul. 16, 2012). 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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