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Parties Involved:
Loretta E. Lynch
Respondent
Carmen Elizabeth Rivas-Alvarez
Petitioner

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 15-3617

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Carmen Elizabeth Rivas-Alvarez

lllllllllllllllllllllPetitioner

v.

Loretta E. Lynch, Attorney General of the United States

lllllllllllllllllllllRespondent

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Petition for Review of an Order of the

 Board of Immigration Appeals

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 Submitted: August 15, 2016

Filed: August 18, 2016

[Unpublished]

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Before LOKEN, BENTON, and KELLY, Circuit Judges. 

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PER CURIAM.

Salvadoran citizen Carmen Elizabeth Rivas-Alvarez petitions for review of an

order of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding an immigration judge’s denial

of petitioner’s application for asylum and withholding of removal. After careful

consideration, we conclude that substantial evidence on the record as a whole supports

the agency’s decision, see Quinonez-Perez v. Holder, 635 F.3d 342, 344 (8th Cir.

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2011), because petitioner failed to establish that the claimed past persecution, or the

claimed fear of future persecution, was on account of a protected asylum ground, see

DeCastro-Gutierrez v. Holder, 713 F.3d 375, 380-81 (8th Cir. 2013); MatulHernandez v. Holder, 685 F.3d 707, 712-13 (8th Cir. 2012); Constanza v. Holder, 647

F.3d 749, 753-54 (8th Cir. 2011).

The petition for review is denied. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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