Zhao
Fenghuan Zhao v. Holder
Opinion
Opinion
MEMORANDUM
Fenghuan Zhao (“Zhao”) is a 50-year old native and citizen of China. Zhao claims that Chinese authorities have persecuted her because she opposed layoffs from a local factory. She seeks asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). The immigra tion judge (“IJ”) found Zhao to be not credible, and the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirmed without opinion.
We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny Zhao’s petition.
Because the BIA summarily affirmed the IJ’s determination pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1 (e)(4), we review the IJ’s decision as the final agency action. Lanza v. Ashcroft, 389 F.3d 917, 925 (9th Cir. 2004). Our review of an IJ’s adverse credibility findings is deferential. Even if “some of the factors the IJ relied upon are either unsupported or irrelevant, so long as one of the identified grounds is supported by substantial evidence and goes to the heart of [the Petitioner’s] claim of persecution, we are bound to accept the IJ’s adverse credibility finding.” Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 964 (9th Cir.2004) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).