Sharma
Sharma v. Mukasey
Opinion
lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Lead petitioner Anjali Sharma, and her two daughters, Purva Sharma and Harshita Sharma, all natives and citizens of India, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1042 (9th Cir.2001), and we deny the petition.
Where, as here, the BIA has reviewed the IJ’s decision and incorporated portions of it as its own, we treat the incorporated parts of the IJ’s decision as the BIA’s. See Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1093 (9th Cir.2002). Substantial evidence supports the conclusion that Anjali Sharma’s testimony was implausible, and was inconsistent with regard to her sole identity document. See Chebchoub, 257 F.3d at 1043-44 . Because there was reason to question her credibility, and she failed to produce non-duplicative, material, easily-available corroborating evidence, and because a reasonable trier of fact would not be compelled to conclude that corroborating…