Singh
Singh v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
*409 MEMORANDUM ***
Balbir Singh, a native and citizen of Fiji, seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) denials of asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”).
Substantial evidence, including internal and external inconsistencies in Singh’s testimony, supports the BIA’s determination that Singh failed to establish eligibility for asylum. Excluding the “big attack” on his family, about which Singh testified to incredibly, the remaining incidents of which Singh complains do not rise to the level of persecution. Singh also failed to demonstrate a connection between the acts of harassment and his membership in a protected group. See Singh v. INS, 134 F.3d 962, 970 (9th Cir.1998). In addition, Singh failed to prove that the source of the harassment was a group the government was unwilling or unable to control, see Avetova-Elisseva v. INS, 213 F.3d 1192, 1196 (9th Cir.2000), as the police did investigate the two incidents reported to them. Moreover, although the social and political conditions for IndoFijians in Fiji are deeply troubling, Singh has not demonstrated any individualized, rather than generalized, risk to…