Burchuladze
Burchuladze v. Ashcroft
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Genadi, Natalia, and Sopio Burchuladze, citizens of Georgia, petition pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of Genadi Burchuladze’s (“Burchuladze”) application for asylum and withholding of removal. Burchuladze’s wife and daughter are derivative applicants. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny the petition for review. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000) (“[T]he IJ’s determination that an alien is not eligible'for asylum must be upheld if supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence in the record.”).
Petitioners’ challenge to the BIA’s streamlining procedure is foreclosed by Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845 (9th Cir.2003).
*111 Petitioners have not demonstrated that the incidents of harassment and discrimination claimed by Burchuladze compel the conclusion that he was persecuted on account of his religion. See Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1016 (9th Cir.2003) (“Persecution is an extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment our society regards as offensive.... That Nagoulko was fired from her job as…