Martha Alvarez-Cruz v. Merrick Garland

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

JUN 29 2022

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MARTHA ALVAREZ-CRUZ, No. 20-71553

Petitioner, Agency No. A205-519-171

v.

MEMORANDUM*

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General,

Respondent.

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

Argued and Submitted June 6, 2022 Portland, Oregon

Before: EBEL,** W. FLETCHER, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Petitioner Martha Alvarez-Cruz, a citizen of Honduras, petitions for review

of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) dismissal of her appeal from the

Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for withholding of removal

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable David M. Ebel, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation. and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have

jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. “We review for substantial evidence factual

findings…