Sie Zhi Chang v. Mukasey

MEMORANDUM **

Sie Zhi Chang, a Chinese national and Honduran citizen, appeals the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) order affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of Chang’s application for asylum from and withholding of removal to Honduras and China. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a), and we affirm.

*831 1. Honduras

To qualify for asylum and withholding of removal, the source of the applicant’s alleged persecution must be the government or a group the government is unwilling or unable to control. See Mashiri v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 1112, 1122-23 (9th Cir.2004); Korablina v. INS, 158 F.3d 1038, 1045 (9th Cir.1998). The only evidence Chang provided that the Honduran government was unable or unwilling to control his persecutors, local Taiwanese officials, was his testimony that the Taiwanese government provided police cars and equipment to the Honduran police and the two organizations had “very cordial relations, just like brothers.” This evidence does not compel the conclusion that the Honduran government was unwilling or unable to control Chang’s persecutors. See Korablina, 158 F.3d at 1045 .

2. China

Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1158 (b)(2)(A)(vi),…