Situmeang

Situmeang v. Holder

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397 F. App'x 385
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitSeptember 28, 2010No. 05-75577California317 words

Opinion

Dissenting Opinion

Smith, J.

dissenting in part:

I dissent as to the panel’s holding on the past persecution finding.

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Edwin Situmeang and Daniel-Edgar Hasudungan, natives and citizens of Indonesia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) orders dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their applications for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, and we review de novo the agency’s legal determinations. Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009). We deny in part and grant in part the petition for review, and we remand.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that petitioners’ experiences, including a robbery during which Hasudungan was injured, do not constitute past persecution, see Hoxha v. Ashcroft, 319 F.3d 1179, 1181-82 (9th Cir.2003), and petitioners have not demonstrated any basis for past persecution under Hernandez-Ortiz v. Gonzales, 496 F.3d 1042, 1045-46 (9th Cir.2007).

However, the BIA did not apply the disfavored group analysis to petitioners’ claim that they faced a clear probability of future persecution on account of their Christian…

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