Rakai

Rakai v. Mukasey

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284 F. App'x 400
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJune 30, 2008No. 05-71200California282 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Milika Rakai, a native and citizen of Fiji, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny the petition for review.

We do not reach Rakai’s claim that extraordinary circumstances excused the untimely filing of her asylum application because she waived any challenge to the agency’s dispositive finding that she was ineligible for asylum because she had firmly resettled in Australia. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996); 8 C.F.R. § 208.13 (c)(2)(B) (an applicant may not be granted asylum if she “was firmly resettled in another country prior to arriving in the United States.”). Similarly, because Rakai fails to address withholding of removal or CAT relief in her brief, those issues are waived. See id.

We review de novo claims of constitutional violations in immigration proceedings. Ram v. INS, 243 F.3d 510, 516 (9th Cir.2001). Rakai has not established that she was…

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