Siyang Xiang v. Merrick Garland

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JAN 27 2022

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

SIYANG XIANG, No. 19-71847 Petitioner, Agency No. A087-841-215

v.

MEMORANDUM*

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General, Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Argued and Submitted March 5, 2021 Pasadena, California

Before: SILER,** HURWITZ, and COLLINS, Circuit Judges.

Petitioner Siyang Xiang petitions for review of the order of the Board of

Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) upholding the denial by the immigration judge

(“IJ”) of his application for asylum.1 We have jurisdiction under § 242 of the

Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1252. “We review factual findings,

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr., United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation. 1 As the BIA noted, Xiang withdrew his…