Julian Parasian v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Julian Yacob Parasian, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Gormley v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th Cir.2004), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that, even if Parasian were credible and had established harm rising to the level of persecution, he failed to show that the harm he suffered in Indonesia was on account of a protected ground. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481-84 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992) (evidence must compel the conclusion persecutors are motivated by a protected ground); Bolshakov v. INS, 133 F.3d 1279, 1280-81 (9th Cir.1998) (concluding petitioners failed to show extortion was on account of an enumerated ground). In addition, the record does not compel the conclusion that Parasian established a well-founded fear of future persecution because, even as…