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LAN CHEN, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, United States Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 04-0311.
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    June 19, 2006.
    Alan Lee, New York, NY, for Petitioner.
    Kevin T. Traskos, Assistant United States Attorney (William J. Leone, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, of counsel), Denver, CO, for Respondent.
    PRESENT: Hon. ROBERT D. SACK, Hon. ROBERT A. KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, Hon. J. GARVAN MURTHA, District Judge.
    
    
      
       Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c)(2), we have substituted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for former Attorney General John Ashcroft as the respondent in this case.
    
    
      
       The Honorable J. Garvan Murtha, of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont, sitting by designation.
    
   SUMMARY ORDER

Petitioner Lan Chen has abandoned her initial claim for asylum on the basis of political opinion and instead argues — for the first time — for asylum based on membership in a social group. Because Chen never argued to the IJ or the BIA that her forced marriage constituted persecution based on her membership in a social group, her claims for asylum and withholding of removal must be denied for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. See Cao He Lin v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 428 F.3d 391, 407 (2d Cir.2005); United States v. Gonzalez-Roque, 301 F.3d 39, 47 (2d Cir.2002); see also Cervantes-Ascencio v. U.S. INS, 326 F.3d 83, 87 (2d Cir.2003) (requiring exhaustion on the “specific issue” of voluntary departure). Chen has also faded to demonstrate a probability that she would be tortured if she returns to China.

For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is hereby DENIED.