Dudgeon

Dudgeon v. Ashcroft

Good Law
112 F. App'x 646
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitNovember 9, 2004No. 03-72622; Agency No. A79-195-388California392 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Yusnani Dudgeon petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming the denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Dudgeon contends that she suffered past persecution in Indonesia and that as a Muslim woman married to a Christian man she has a well-founded fear of future persecution if she were returned to that country.

Where, as here, the BIA streamlines its review of the immigration judge’s (IJ’s) decision, we review the IJ’s decision directly as the agency’s final action. Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 850 F.3d 845 , 849 (9th Cir.2003).

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s conclusion that Dudgeon failed to establish sufficient individualized harm or risk of future harm to be eligible for asylum based on past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution. *** See Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 967 (9th Cir.1998) (recognizing that “[m]ere generalized lawlessness and violence” without a particularized risk to the petitioner is generally insufficient to support a claim of asylum).

The record shows that Dudgeon suffered no harm in Indonesia. The…

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