Samuel Sentosa v. Merrick Garland

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

AUG 30 2021

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SAMUEL SENTOSA, No. 19-73171

Petitioner, Agency No. A079-529-464

v.

MEMORANDUM*

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General,

Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted May 4, 2021 Seattle, Washington

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

1 Before: BOGGS,** BERZON, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.

Samuel Sentosa is a citizen of Indonesia by nativity, Chinese by ethnicity, and

a Christian by faith. During Indonesia’s widespread discrimination and violence

against ethnic Chinese and Christians in the 1990s—including his own experiences

of being attacked, threatened, and robbed—Sentosa fled for American shores in

1999. He overstayed his visa and has been both granted and denied asylum and

withholding of removal more than once. The agency’s last determination was to

deport…