Tee
Tee v. Ashcroft
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Suwardi Taswin Tee, native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence a denial of asylum and will uphold the IJ’s decision unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. Malhi v. INS, 336 F.3d 989, 992-93 (9th Cir.2003). We deny the petition.
Tee testified that when he was a child, other children harassed or discriminated against him based on his Chinese ethnicity, and that when he was a freshman in high school he was the victim of an attempted robbery. Tee also testified that he returned to Indonesia after attending college in the United States, and had returned on two subsequent occasions after visiting the United States. The IJ properly concluded that the events, as Tee described them, did not rise to the level of persecution, see Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 340 (9th Cir. 1995), and that Tee’s fear of future persecution was not objectively well-founded, *64…