Coronado
Coronado v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM ***
Gladys Patricia Coronado and Juan Carlos Garcia-Aguilar (collectively, Coronado), petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) determination that they are ineligible for asylum or. withholding of removal. We deny the petition.
Assuming that Coronado was credible, substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that she does not qualify for asylum or withholding of removal. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992); 8 U.S.C. § 1229 (a). There is no evidence that the men in black who killed Coronado’s brother persecuted Coronado or her family on account of any statutorily protected ground. Nor did Coronado establish that the men actually were guerillas, or worked for the government, or a quasi-official group, or were persons or groups that the government was unable or unwilling to control. Coronado also failed to establish that she has a well-founded fear of future persecution. She did not show that it is likely that her brother’s political opinion would be imputed to her, that the alleged guerillas knew of his political opinion, or that in the twenty…