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SOTO-TAPIA v. I.N.S.

No. 93-4334 Summary Calendar.

8 F.3d 1 (1993)

Juan Benito SOTO-TAPIA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 1, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian K. Bates, Houston, TX, for petitioner.

Juan Benito Soto-Tapia, pro se.

Janet Reno, Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Anthony Norwood, Robert Kendall, Jr., Robert L. Bombough, Dir., David J. Kline, Off. of Immigration Lit., Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for respondent.

Ronald Chandler, I.N.S. Dist. Dir., Dallas, TX, John B.Z. Caplinger, I.N.S. Dist. Dir., New Orleans, LA, for other interested parties.

Before JOLLY, WIENER, and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

In this petition for review of the final deportation order of the Board of Immigration Appeals, we hold that the alien filed his petition late. We therefore dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.

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In 1990, Juan Benito Soto-Tapia, a Mexican citizen who entered this country in 1982, was convicted of possession with intent to distribute fifty kilograms of marijuana under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). On November 26, 1990, the Immigration and Naturalization...

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