Lopez

MEMORANDUM ***

Rogelio Orlando Salic Lopez is a native and citizen of Guatemala. He applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. 1 The Immigration Judge (IJ) denied his asylum and withholding of removal claims finding that he did not provide credible testimony. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) adopted and affirmed the IJ’s adverse credibility determination, see Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1040 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc), and denied Salic Lopez’s claim that his due process right to a fair appeal was violated because of gaps in the hearing transcript. Salic Lopez petitions for review of the BIA’s decision. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 and we deny the petition for review.

We review for substantial evidence adverse credibility determinations. Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1043 (9th Cir.2001). At the end of his hearing, only after being reminded of testimony he gave the asylum officer, Salic Lopez confirmed that he had been kidnapped by the army and forced to perform manual labor barefoot for three days. The IJ could properly view this as a deliberate attempt by Salic Lopez to enhance his persecution claim…