Ilyazbarova

MEMORANDUM **

Stella Ilyazbarova, Arsen S. Ahamian, and Oleg S. Ahamian (collectively “Petitioners”), natives and citizens of Azerbaijan, petition for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying their application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture.

We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ’s adverse credibility determination because Petitioners failed to raise the issue before the BIA and, thus, failed to exhaust their administrative remedies. Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004). Petitioners, moreover, do not challenge the IJ’s adverse credibility finding before this Court and, in the absence of argument, “we cannot manufacture arguments for an appellant and therefore we will not consider any claims that were not actually argued in the appellant’s opening brief.” Indep. Towers of Wash. v. Wash., 350 F.3d 925 , 929 (9th Cir.2003) (quotations omitted).

*188 We need not consider Petitioner’s contentions regarding their eligibility for asylum or withholding of removal because we cannot review the IJ’s adverse credibility determination, and that…