Radsphone

MEMORANDUM

Chansamone Radsphone (“Radsphone”) petitions for review of the Board of Immi gration Appeal’s (“BIA”) decision denying her applications for asylum, withholding of removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) and cancellation of removal. Radsphone also petitions for review of the BIA’s subsequent order denying her motion to reconsider, reopen and remand. We deny her petitions because none of Radsphone’s contentions are persuasive.

First, substantial evidence supports the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) credibility determinations. Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 962 (9th Cir.2004) (an adverse credibility determination will be upheld where the inconsistencies go to the heart of the asylum claim). Here, Radsphone’s inconsistent statements regarding when and where she last saw her father go to the heart of her claims. On direct, Radsphone testified that the last time she saw her father was in 1977, testimony bolstering her assertion that the Laotian government had persecuted her father and might well persecute her. However, on cross-examination, Radsphone admitted she had seen her father when he visited the family between 1978 and 1983 and that he was working…