Blasius Mvo Kum v. MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, Attorney General

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 07-2117
BLASIUS MVO KUM,
Petitioner,
v.
MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals.
Submitted: July 31, 2008 Decided: September 2, 2008
Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Albert Isiaka Usumanu, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Petitioner.
Gregory G. Katsas, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Linda S.
Wernery, Assistant Director, Leslie McKay, Senior Litigation
Counsel, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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*The Board analyzed Kum’s motions to recalendar and reissue as
motions to reopen, and Kum does not contest this on appeal.
Neither does he dispute the Board’s finding that the motions were
untimely.
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PER CURIAM:
Blasius Mvo Kum, a native and citizen of Cameroon,
petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration
appeals (Board) denying his untimely motions to recalendar removal
proceedings and reissue its order of October 1, 2004.* Kum asserts
that the Board erred in refusing to reopen his proceedings on
account of ineffective assistance of counsel that violated his
rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. We
find that such a claim is not cognizable in immigration
proceedings. See Afanwi v. Mukasey, 526 F.3d 788, 798 (4th Cir.
2008) (holding that retained counsel’s ineffective assistance in a
removal proceeding cannot deprive an alien of his Fifth Amendment
right to a fundamentally fair hearing).
We accordingly deny the petition for review. We dispense
with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are
adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument
would not aid the decisional process.
PETITION DENIED

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