Maria Garcia-Torres v. Merrick Garland

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

MAR 16 2022

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MARIA CONCEPCION GARCIA- No. 17-72172 TORRES, AKA Maria Concepcion Garcia, AKA Sandra Huerta-Rico, AKA Teresa Agency No. A088-737-802 Sanchez-Torres,

Petitioner, MEMORANDUM*

v.

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General,

Respondent.

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

Submitted March 14, 2022** Las Vegas, Nevada

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). Before: KLEINFELD and BENNETT, Circuit Judges, and COGAN,*** District Judge.

Petitioner Maria Garcia-Torres claims that the Board of Immigration

Appeals (BIA) wrongly upheld the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) adverse credibility

determination that doomed her claims for asylum and withholding of removal. She

also claims that the BIA wrongly upheld the IJ’s denial of relief…