Dengah

Dengah v. Ashcroft

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104 F. App'x 105
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJuly 21, 2004No. 03-70809California323 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Deesie Dengah, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance without opinion of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny the petition for review.

*106 Where, as here, the BIA affirms without an opinion, we review the IJ’s decision directly. See Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 849 (9th Cir.2003). We review for substantial evidence the IJ’s denial of eligibility for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT relief. See Zheng v. Ashcroft, 332 F.3d 1186, 1193 (9th Cir. 2003).

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s conclusion that Dengah failed to establish sufficient individualized harm or risk of future harm as a Christian to be eligible for asylum on the basis of past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution. See Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 967 (9th Cir.1998) (recognizing that mere general lawlessness and violence without an appreciably different risk to the petitioner is not enough to support a claim of…

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