Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Baldev Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“U”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal and for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence an adverse credibility determination, Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1042 (9th Cir.2001), and we deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility finding because Singh’s testimony was both internally inconsistent and inconsistent with his application. For example, Singh did not describe a police detention in his application between 1984 and 1990, but testified he was questioned and detained by police between fifty to sixty times during that period. Singh also testified that he was questioned and detained after 1990, and later testified that he was on the run after 1990 and was not detained. Because these inconsistencies, including an additional inconsistency regarding his first arrest, go to the heart of his asylum claim, substantial evidence sup *269 ports the denial…