Jagbir Sandhu v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Jagbir Singh Sandhu (Sandhu) filed two petitions for review that we later consolidated. The first petition concerns the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of Sandhu’s asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) claims. The second petition concerns the BIA’s denial of Sandhu’s motion to reopen.

Regarding his asylum and withholding of removal claims, Sandhu argues that the IJ implicitly found him not credible. But the BIA determined that the IJ assumed Sandhu was credible. Sandhu also argues that the IJ did not individualize the analysis of changed country conditions with respect to Sandhu’s specific situation. But the BIA recognized and affirmed the IJ’s individualized analysis of Sandhu’s claims affected by changed country conditions shown in the country reports. Sandhu further argues that the evidence that he introduced contradicted the findings in country reports on which the government relied to rebut the presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution. But the BIA was entitled to weigh and to credit other evidence in the record, such as what was said in the country…