Grilauskaite

MEMORANDUM **

Petitioner Ale Grilauskaite appeals the summary decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) upholding the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. We affirm.

On appeal to this court Grilauskaite did not challenge the IJ and BIA’s holding that she failed to establish persecution under the Immigration and Nationality Act and therefore waived her challenge on that issue, requiring this court to affirm the decision below without discussion. Leer v. Murphy, 844 F.2d 628, 634 (9th Cir.1988) (“[i]ssues raised in a brief which are not supported by argument are deemed abandoned” (citation omitted)).

Furthermore, this court does not have jurisdiction to hear or decide Grilauskaite’s claim that she was persecuted based on her membership in a particular social group. That issue was not raised before either the IJ or the BIA and this court does not have jurisdiction over it because Grilauskaite failed to exhaust her administrative remedies. 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (d) (“A court may review a final order of removal only if—(1) the alien has exhausted all administrative remedies available to the alien as of right.”); Zara v.…