Izquierdo-Rios

Izquierdo-Rios v. Mukasey

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254 F. App'x 638
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitNovember 16, 2007No. 05-71589California277 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Juan Gabriel Izquierdo-Rios, a citizen of Peru, filed a petition for review of the *639 denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal for himself, his wife and their two children. The parties are familiar with the facts and we do not recite them here except as necessary.

The BIA summarily affirmed the decision of the Immigration Judge (“IJ”); therefore we review the decision of the IJ as the final agency determination. Nuru v. Gonzales, 404 F.3d 1207, 1215 (9th Cir. 2005). “To reverse the IJ’s finding, we ‘must find that the evidence not only supports that conclusion, but compels it[.]’ ” Nahrvani v. Gonzales, 399 F.3d 1148, 1151 (9th Cir.2005) (quoting INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992)).

Izquierdo-Rios challenges the IJ’s conclusion that he is not entitled to asylum because he was not attacked on account of an imputed political opinion. He argues that he was attacked by members of Shining Path, a Maoist narco-terrorist organization, because they believed he was a police informant who was interfering with their political activities. However, we have held that being regarded as a police informant…

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