Kamara

MEMORANDUM

Abu Bakarr Kamara (“Kamara”), a native and citizen of Sierra Leone, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) order adopting and affirming the decision of the Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denying Kamara’s application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Kamara fears that, if he returned to Sierra Leone, he would be tortured or persecuted by the Revolutionary United Front (“RUF”) guerrillas because he is a member of the Mandinka tribe. He testified before the IJ that he and his family were attacked by the RUF on three separate occasions before he fled Sierra Leone, and that he has been advised not to return.

The IJ denied Kamara’s application because he found that Kamara was not credible and, as a result, he had not established that he had filed for asylum within one-year of arriving in the United States or that he had suffered past persecution. The IJ also found that even if Kamara had established past persecution, documentary evidence of changed country conditions in Sierra Leone rebutted the presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution.

I.

We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ’s…