Kurnia
Kurnia v. Holder
Opinion
Opinion
MEMORANDUM
Judy Kurnia and his family, natives and citizens of Indonesia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their claims for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review de novo questions of law and for substantial evidence factual findings. Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009). We deny the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that petitioners failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of their ethnicity or religion. See Halim v. Holder, 590 F.3d 971, 975-77 (9th Cir.2009). Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that the incidents of mistreatment petitioners experienced did not rise to the level of persecution. See Wakkary, 558 F.3d at 1059-60 (discriminatory mistreatment including beatings and robberies by native Indonesian youths and being accosted by hostile mob did not, without more, “cumulatively amount to past persecution,” and harm to petitioner’s associates did…