Case ID: f-appx_637/html/0371-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Misael Carbajal MEJIA, aka Misael Bonilla Silva, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 13-73829.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Feb. 12, 2016.
    
    Filed Feb. 19, 2016.
    Misael Bonilla Silva, Las Vegas, NV, pro se.
    Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, OIL, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Erik R. Quick, Tri-. al, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: FARRIS, CLIFTON, and BEA, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Misael Carbajal Mejia, a native and citizen of Honduras, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings. Silaya v. Mukasey, 524 F.3d 1066, 1070 (9th Cir.2008).

Before the agency, Carbajal Mejia claimed he was persecuted and fears persecution on account of his political opinion and membership in a particular social group of National Party members. Substantial evidence supports the agency’s conclusion that Carbajal Mejia did not establish a nexus to a protected ground based on the problems he experienced after witnessing the killing of a mayoral candidate. See Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 740-42 (9th Cir.2009) (the REAL ID Act “requires that a protected ground represent ‘one central reason’ for an asylum applicant’s persecution”; record did not compel finding of nexus). Thus, Carbajal Mejia’s withholding of removal claim fails.

Substantial evidence also supports the agency’s denial of CAT relief because Car-bajal Mejia failed to establish it is more likely than not he would be tortured at the instigation of or with the acquiescence of the government if returned to Honduras. See Silaya, 524 F.3d at 1073.

Finally, according to the government, Carbajal Mejia was removed from the United States on March 11, 2014. Thus, his challenges as to his detention and the denial of a bond hearing are moot.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.