Garcia De Lazo v. Holder

MEMORANDUM

Marina Alejandra Garcia de Lazo, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence factual findings, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 & n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), and we review de novo due process claims, Vasquez-Zavala v. Ashcroft, 324 F.3d 1105, 1107 (9th Cir.2003). We deny the petition for review.

Garcia de Lazo does not contend before this court that she suffered past persecution. Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that Garcia de Lazo failed to establish a well-founded fear of persecution because the extortion of her father was not on account of a protected ground. See Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. at 483 , 112 S.Ct. 812 ; Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 740-41 (9th Cir.2009) (“The Real ID Act requires that a protected ground represent ‘one central reason’ for an asylum applicant’s persecution”). We do not consider…