Morales-Jimenez

MEMORANDUM ***

Roxanna Giovana Morales-Jimenez (“Morales”), a native and citizen of Peru, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”).

The parties are familiar with the facts. We proceed to the law. An IJ’s decision regarding an applicant’s eligibility for asylum is reviewed to determine whether it is supported by substantial evidence. Ali v. Ashcroft, 394 F.3d 780, 784 (9th Cir.2005). Under that standard, the IJ’s decision must be upheld unless the record would compel a reasonable fact finder to reach an opposite conclusion. Id.

Morales argues the IJ’s finding of adverse credibility is not supported by substantial evidence. We disagree. The IJ offered “specific, cogent” reasons for finding that Morales’s testimony was vague, contradictory and speculative. Hartooni v. INS, 21 F.3d 336, 342 (9th Cir.1994).

Even assuming Morales’s testimony is credible, viewed cumulatively, the harm she testified to—that she was physi *80 cally abused by her boyfriend during her pregnancy and thereafter was…