Ali El Said v. Loretta E. Lynch

MEMORANDUM

Ali Mustafa El Said, a native and citizen of Egypt, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT).

1. The record does not compel the conclusion that El Said suffered past persecution. El Said was undoubtedly the target of threats and harassment, and a motorcy clist apparently attempted to run him down shortly after the conclusion of Detective Saleh’s trial. We cannot say, however, that all reasonable finders of fact would determine that those incidents were so menacing or placed El Said in such fear for his life as to cause “significant actual ‘suffering or harm.’ ” Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 936 (9th Cir.2000) (quoting Sangha v. INS, 103 F.3d 1482, 1487 (9th Cir.1997)).

Nor does the record compel the conclusion that El Said’s troubles in Egypt bore a nexus to a statutorily enumerated ground. See 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (a)(42)(A). El Said helped litigate a civil suit against one abusive local official, Detective Saleh, but did not target the “systemic nature” of police brutality in Egypt in general. Cf Hasan v. Ashcroft, 380 F.3d…