Halim

Halim v. Gonzales

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212 F. App'x 705
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitDecember 15, 2006No. 05-71442California313 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Mohammed Halim, and his wife, Ashiyana Halim, natives and citizens of Fiji, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their application for asylum, withholding of re *706 moval, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s and BIA’s decisions that petitioners failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution. Any harm that petitioners experienced fails to rise to the level of persecution, and petitioners failed to show that the harm was committed by the government or forces that the government was unable or unwilling to control. See Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1016-18 (9th Cir.2003); see also Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 795 (9th Cir.2005). Petitioners also failed to identify the vandals in some instances and failed to establish that any vandalism or harassment occurred on account of an enumerated…

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