Yucheng Ding v. Merrick Garland

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

APR 22 2024

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

YUCHENG DING, No. 21-70263

Petitioner, Agency No. A095-876-740

v.

MEMORANDUM*

MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General,

Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted April 9, 2024 Pasadena, California

Before: SILER,** BEA, and IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Yucheng Ding petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals

(BIA) order affirming the decision of an Immigration Judge (IJ) that denied him

asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation. (CAT). We have jurisdiction to consider his legal challenge under 8 U.S.C.

§ 1252(a)(2)(D).

Because Ding applied for asylum and withholding in 2002, the…