Cinfuentes

Cinfuentes v. Gonzales

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206 F. App'x 694
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitNovember 14, 2006No. 05-71492California351 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Rogelio Baldo Flores Cinfuentes, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of a summary order of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding an Immigration Judge’s (“I J”) denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”).

We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . Reviewing for substantial evidence, Ochave v. INS, 254 F.3d 859, 862 *696 (9th Cir.2001), we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s finding that there was no nexus between the harms Flores Cinfuentes suffered and a protected ground. See id. at 865 . There is no evidence in the record that the guerrilla who threatened Flores Cinfuentes did so for any reason other than out of his desire to reconcile with his former girlfriend, who Flores Cinfuentes began dating. See id.

We lack jurisdiction to consider Flores Cinfuentes’s contention that he is part of a social group comprised of people in Guatemala who failed to follow the orders of a guerrilla group because he failed to exhaust it below. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004).

Additionally, there is no evidence in the…

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