Jeffry

Jeffry v. Holder

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339 F. App'x 677
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJune 15, 2009No. 04-72777California282 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Petitioners Stephen Jeffry and his wife, who are natives and citizens of Indonesia, *678 petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ orders dismissing their appeals from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decisions denying their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Reviewing for substantial evidence, Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1015 (9th Cir.2003), we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s conclusion that Petitioners failed to establish past persecution. See id. at 1016-18 (concluding that the petitioner did not suffer past persecution, although she was pushed, teased, bothered, discriminated against and harassed, because she never suffered any significant physical violence). Further, even if Petitioners are members of a disfavored group under the analysis set forth in Sael v. Ashcroft, 386 F.3d 922 (9th Cir.2004), substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that they failed to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution because they voluntarily returned to Indonesia. Loho v. Mukasey, 531 F.3d 1016, 1017-18 (9th Cir.2008). Because substantial…

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