ALEXANDRE-MATIAS v. GARLAND

No. 21-60798.

70 F.4th 864 (2023)

Cleiton ALEXANDRE-MATIAS, Petitioner, v. Merrick GARLAND, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED June 13, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raed Gonzalez, Esq. , Senior Attorney, Gonzalez Olivieri, L.L.C., Houston, TX, for Petitioner.

Monica G. Antoun , Laura Halliday Hickein , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/OIL, Washington, DC, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Before Wiener, Higginson, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.


In 2005, Cleiton Alexandre-Matias, a native and citizen of Brazil, was ordered removed in absentia. In 2018, he moved to reopen and rescind the removal order, and an immigration judge (IJ) denied his request. He appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and the BIA dismissed his appeal. He now petitions for...

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