Kanda
Kanda v. Ashcroft
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Amarjit Kanda and Anita Rani, husband and wife and natives and citizens of India, petition pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming an Immigration Judge’s decision denying their applications for asylum, withholding of deportation, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a). We review for substantial evidence the BIA’s findings, see Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000), and we deny the petition.
The BIA relied on sufficiently individualized State Department country profile reports as to the current treatment of Sikhs in Punjab, and substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that, even assuming past persecution, respondent rebutted the presumption of a well-founded fear of persecution through an individualized analysis of changed conditions in Punjab. See Garcia-Martinez v. Ashcroft, 371 F.3d 1066, 1074 (9th Cir. *342 2004) (requiring individualized analysis of how changed country conditions affect specific petitioner’s situation); Gonzalez-Hernandez v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 995, 998-1000 (9th Cir.2003) (substantial evidence supported BIA’s…