Mendez-Guitirrez
Mendez-Guitirrez v. Gonzales
Opinion
Opinion
Wallace COUNSEL, J.
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
ZEFERINO MENDEZ-GUTIERREZ,
Petitioner, No. 04-72525 v. Agency No.
A75-301-863
ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals
Argued and Submitted February 15, 2006—San Francisco, California
Filed April 17, 2006
Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Michael Daly Hawkins, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Wallace COUNSEL
Jonathan M. Kaufman, San Francisco, California, for the peti- tioner.
Peter D. Keisler, Linda S. Wendtland, Shelley R. Goad, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.
OPINION
WALLACE, Circuit Judge:
Zeferino Mendez-Gutierrez petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (Board) denial of his motion to reinstate his asylum application. The Board found that Mendez-Gutierrez had not established a prima facie case for asylum based on a well-founded fear of future persecution. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a). We deny the petition for…