Nararto

Nararto v. Ashcroft

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109 F. App'x 987
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitSeptember 27, 2004No. 03-72139California307 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Riza Aviano Muhammed Narrato and his wife Yuni Fianti Thaib, natives and citizens of Indonesia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary affirmance without opinion of an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the IJ’s asylum eligibility determination for substantial evidence, Gormley v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1172, 1176 (9th Cir.2004), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s denial of petitioners’ asylum application because petitioners did not show that they were harmed or mistreated on account of their political opinion or another statutorily protected ground. See Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 936 (9th Cir.2000) (petitioner failed to establish past persecution where neither he nor his family was ever “touched, robbed, imprisoned, forcibly re *988 cruited, detained, interrogated, trespassed upon, or even closely confronted! ]”).

Moreover, substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that the petitioners’ fear of the general state of civil…

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