Gonie

Gonie v. Mukasey

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305 F. App'x 376
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitDecember 26, 2008No. 05-75490California477 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Alfred A. Gonie, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Conven *378 tion Against Torture (“CAT”) and pretermiting his application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review factual findings for substantial evidence, Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir.2006), the denial of a motion to remand for abuse of discretion, Movsisian v. Ashcroft, 395 F.3d 1095, 1098 (9th Cir.2005), and questions of law de novo, Vasquez-Zavala v. Ashcroft, 324 F.3d 1105, 1107 (9th Cir.2003) . We deny in part and grant in part the petition for review, and we remand.

The agency denied Gonie’s asylum application as time barred. Gonie does not challenge this finding in his opening brief.

Substantial evidence supports the Id’s denial of withholding of removal. See Hakeem v. INS, 273 F.3d 812, 817 (9th Cir.2001). Gonie did not experience any problems in the past, and, even if the disfavored group analysis set forth in Sael…

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