Case ID: f-appx_435/html/0691-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Pedrina Guadalupe BOLANOS-VENTURA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 08-74730.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted May 24, 2011.
    
    Filed June 3, 2011.
    Pedrina Guadalupe Bolanos-Ventura, Los Angeles, CA, pro se.
    
      Monica Antoun, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: PREGERSON, THOMAS, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Pedrina Guadalupe Bolanos-Ventura, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying her application for asylum, 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, Nahrvani v. Gonzales, 399 F.3d 1148, 1151 (9th Cir.2005), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s conclusion that Bolanos-Ventura did not establish past persecution based on her experiences in El Salvador. See id. at 1153-54 (two “serious” but anonymous threats coupled with harassment and de minimis property damage did not constitute past persecution). Substantial evidence also supports the agency’s conclusion that Bolanos-Ventura failed to establish a well-founded fear of future persecution. See id. at 1154 (fear of future persecution too speculative). Accordingly, Bolanos-Ventura’s asylum claim fails.

Because Bolanos-Ventura failed to establish eligibility for asylum, she necessarily failed to meet the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See id.

Finally, Bolanos-Ventura fails to raise any substantive challenge to the denial of her CAT claim. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996) (issues not addressed in the argument portion of a brief are deemed waived).

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