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Parties Involved:
Chee Chee J. Greene
Petitioner
Michael B. Mukasey
Respondent

Document Text:

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Michael B. Mukasey, now Attorney General of the United States, is substituted

as respondent pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 43(c).

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 06-2593

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Chee Chee J. Greene, *

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Petitioner, *

* Petition for Review of

v. * an Order of the Board

* of Immigration Appeals.

Michael B. Mukasey,1

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Attorney General of the * [UNPUBLISHED]

United States of America, *

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Respondent. *

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Submitted: November 28, 2007

Filed: December 18, 2007

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Before MURPHY, SMITH, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Liberian citizen Chee Chee Greene petitions for review of an order of the Board

of Immigration Appeals (BIA) which affirmed an Immigration Judge’s (IJ’s) denial

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

(CAT). We deny the petition.

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We lack jurisdiction to review the determination that Greene’s asylum

application was barred as untimely filed. See 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(3); Ngure v.

Ashcroft, 367 F.3d 975, 988-89 (8th Cir. 2004). With respect to Greene’s other

requests for relief, we conclude that the denials of withholding of removal and CAT

relief are supported by substantial evidence in the record. See Mouawad v. Gonzales,

485 F.3d 405, 411-13 (8th Cir. 2007) (standard of review; withholding of removal

requires showing of clear probability of persecution; CAT relief requires showing that

it is more likely than not that alien would be tortured if removed to proposed country).

Greene testified that she never suffered harm in Liberia; she did not establish that

anyone in Liberia was currently looking for her; and her claim of feared persecution,

on account of a 1990 accusation against her mother and the involvement of her

stepfather in a democratic party, was speculative. See Huang v. INS, 421 F.3d 125,

129 (2d Cir. 2005) (per curiam) (in absence of solid support in record for alien’s

assertion that he would be persecuted, his fear was “speculative at best”); see also

Momoh v. Att’y Gen. of U.S., 190 Fed. Appx. 159, 162-63 (3d Cir. 2006)

(unpublished opinion) (noting changed country conditions in Liberia).

Accordingly, we deny the petition.

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