Kaur

MEMORANDUM ****

1. Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that Rashpal Kaur has not demonstrated entitlement to asylum, withholding from removal, and protection under CAT. See Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 339 (9th Cir.1995) (reasoning that persecution must be more than threats and restrictions to liberty, and finding no persecution where petitioner, who testified credibly, was placed in a jail cell, questioned about his political affiliations, hit and kicked, and released after four to six hours). Kaur was arrested twice for a total of three days and two or three hours after a mass killing, interrogated, slapped twice, and struck, which caused minor bruising. There is no support that these arrests occurred on account of an imputed political opinion. Cordon-Garcia v. INS, 204 F.3d 985, 990 (9th Cir.2000). Police questioned her to solicit eyewitness testimony that two other individuals were terrorists who had caused the violence. Blanco-Lopez v. INS, 858 F.2d 531, 533 (9th Cir.1988) (reasoning that governments may legitimately detain and question individuals in the course of criminal investigations).

Similarly, Kaur made no shoving that her belief was objectively…