Satpal Singh v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Satpal Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . Because the BIA “conducted its own review of the evidence and law rather than simply adopting the immigration judge’s decision ... our review is limited to the BIA’s decision, except to the extent the IJ’s opinion is expressly adopted.” Hosseini v. Gonzales, 471 F.3d 953, 957 (9th Cir.2006) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). Reviewing the BIA’s decision to deny asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT relief for substantial evidence, Kumar v. Gonzales, 444 F.3d 1043, 1049 (9th Cir.2006), we deny Singh’s petition in its entirety.

The BIA held that Singh did not experience past persecution in India because he had failed to establish a nexus between the harm he allegedly suffered and a protected ground under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (a)(42)(A). This finding is supported by…