Quinteros Ramos v. Holder

MEMORANDUM

Jose Catalino Quinteros Ramos, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the decisions of the Immigration Judge (IJ) and Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissing his claims for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture for failure to establish identity and to prosecute his claims in a timely fashion. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We deny the petition.

When “the BIA adopts and affirms the IJ’s decision with a citation to [Matter of] Burbano, [ 20 I. & N. Dec. 872, 874 , 1994 WL 520994 (BIA 1994) ] and does not disagree with any part of the IJ’s decision, we review the IJ’s decision as if it were the decision of the BIA.” Cruz Rendon v. Holder, 603 F.3d 1104, 1109 (9th Cir.2010) (citing Ahmed v. Holder, 569 F.3d 1009, 1012 (9th Cir.2009); Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc)). When the BIA adds its own reasoning, we review both decisions. Id. (citing Nuru v. Gonzales, 404 F.3d 1207, 1215 (9th Cir.2005)).

The IJ did not abuse his discretion by pretermitting Quinteros’s applications for relief, and the BIA did not abuse its discretion in affirming that…