Charly Chayimin v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Lina and Wahyu Cahyadi Tang, natives and citizens of Indonesia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their 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 the agency’s factual findings. Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009). We deny the petition for review.

Lina claimed mistreatment on multiple occasions by native Indonesians because of her Chinese ethnicity, including numerous instances of groping on crowded buses when she was a child, one robbery at knife-point, and one occasion when she was physically injured. Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s finding that these events, even viewed cumulatively, do not rise to the level of past persecution. See id. at 1060 (‘We cannot say ... that a reasonable factfinder would be compelled to conclude that these experiences, without more, cumulatively amount to past persecution.”) (citations and internal quotations omitted). Substantial evidence also supports the BIA’s…