Singh

MEMORANDUM ***

Sampuran Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming the determinations of an immigration judge (“IJ”) that Singh is ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal because he engaged in terrorist related activities. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a), and we affirm.

As we held recently in Khan v. Holder, 584 F.3d 773, 779-80 (9th Cir.2009), this court has jurisdiction to review the BIA’s denial of asylum relief on terrorist grounds. Although there is a limitation on judicial review of denial of asylum relief on these grounds in 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (b)(2)(D), the REAL ID Act inserted revised Section 1252(a)(2)(D) into Chapter 8 of the United States Code, thereby restoring this court’s jurisdiction to determine the scope and meaning of the statutory terrorism bar, and to review the BIA’s determination that a petitioner engaged in terrorist activity. See Khan, 584 F.3d at 779-80 .

The BIA did not err in determining that Singh engaged in terrorist related activity by providing material support to a terrorist group, and it was thus correct in concluding that Singh was…