Jose Hernandez v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Jose Domingo Hernandez, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have juris-. diction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . See Arteaga v. Mukasey, 511 F.3d 940 , 942 n. 1 (9th Cir.2007). We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings. Silaya v. Mukasey, 524 F.3d 1066, 1070 (9th Cir.2008). We deny the petition for review.

Hernandez does not challenge the agency’s dispositive finding that his asylum application was time-barred. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996) (issues not specifically raised and argued in a party’s opening brief are waived). Thus, we deny the petition as to his asylum claim.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that Hernandez did not establish a nexus for the incidents he recounted, because he did not establish a link between his uncles’ political activities and himself, and did not establish that any harm he experienced while he was in the military was on…