Ghebresillasie

MEMORANDUM **

Medhanie Tecle Ghebresillasie, a native and citizen of Eritrea, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1015 (9th Cir.2003), and we dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review petitioner’s contention that he qualifies for humanitarian asylum because he failed to exhaust this claim before the agency. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004).

We also lack jurisdiction to review petitioner’s contention that he is a member of a disfavored group of former Ethiopian government employees and their immediate families of Eritrean ethnicity because he failed to exhaust this claim before the agency. See id.

Petitioner contends that he suffered past persecution based on the actions and threats he experienced, and by those experienced by his mother, siblings, aunts and uncles. Substantial evidence…