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Carlos A. GUILLEN, Aka Carlos Alfredo Guillen-Bocaneda, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 14-71716
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 26, 2016 
    
    August 4, 2016
    
      Claudia Jasmine Lopez, Law Offices of Claudia Lopez, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
    Drew Brinkman, OIL, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: SCHROEDER, CANBY, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. 
        See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Carlos A. Guillen, a native and citizen of Peru, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”), and voluntary departure. Our jurisdiction is governed by 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), and we review de novo due process claims, Vilchez v. Holder, 682 F.3d 1195, 1198 (9th Cir. 2012). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

We reject Guillen’s contentions based on streamlining because the BIA did not issue a streamlined decision in this case.

Guillen does not challenge the agency’s dispositive determination that his asylum application was untimely and that he failed to establish any changed or extraordinary circumstances to excuse his untimely filing. See Martinez-Serrano v. I.N.S., 94 F.3d 1256, 1259 (9th Cir. 1996) (“Issues raised in a brief that are not supported by argument are deemed abandoned.”). Thus, we deny the petition as to Guillen’s asylum claim.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s conclusion that Guillen did not establish that the threats he received from a weapon smuggler constituted past persecution. See Nagoulko v. I.N.S., 333 F.3d 1012, 1016-18 (9th Cir. 2003) (record did not compel the finding that petitioner experienced past persecution). Substantial evidence also supports the agency’s conclusion that Guillen did not establish a clear probability that his life or freedom would be threatened in Peru. See id. at 1018 (possibility of future persecution “too speculative”). Accordingly, his withholding of removal claim fails.

Further, substantial evidence supports the agency’s denial of Guillen’s CAT claim because Guillen failed to establish it is more likely than not he would be tortured by or with the consent or acquiescence of the government if returned to Peru. See Silaya, 524 F.3d at 1073.

Finally, we lack jurisdiction to consider Guillen’s unexhausted contentions challenging the IJ’s denial of voluntary departure because he failed to raise them to the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir. 2004).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part. . 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.