Case Name: Miguel Campos CARPIO, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2007-11-19
Citations: 254 F. App'x 563
Docket Number: No. 06-2185
Parties: Miguel Campos CARPIO, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
Judges: Before MELLOY, BEAM, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 254
Pages: 563–565

Head Matter:
Miguel Campos CARPIO, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
No. 06-2185.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: Nov. 12, 2007.
Filed: Nov. 19, 2007.
Joseph Lopez Wilson, Omaha, NE, for Petitioner.
Richard M. Evans, Patricia A. Smith, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before MELLOY, BEAM, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Miguel Campos Carpió, a Guatemalan citizen, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) order, which affirmed an Immigration Judge's (IJ's) denial of Carpio's application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). We deny the petition.
The IJ denied the asylum application as untimely because it was filed almost five years after Carpio's 1998 illegal entry into the United States. We lack jurisdiction to review the determination that Carpio's asylum application was barred as untimely filed. See 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(B) (one year statute of limitations); Tolego v. Gonzales, 452 F.3d 763, 766 (8th Cir.2006) ("[T]his court lacks jurisdiction to review either the IJ's determination that the asylum application was not timely filed or the Attorney General's decision rejecting the applicant's complaint of changed circumstances."). Also, because Carpió does not allege a legal error or a constitutional violation such as a denial of due process, his asylum claim does not fit within the limited jurisdictional grant contained in the REAL ID Act of 2005. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B), (D).
Having carefully reviewed the record, see Menendez-Donis v. Ashcroft, 360 F.3d 915, 917-19 (8th Cir.2004) (standard of review), we also deny Carpio's petition as to his withholding of removal and CAT claims. As the IJ noted, Carpió remained in Guatemala for eight year's following his brother's alleged murder by a guerrilla group. Carpió did not testify that he had ever been subjected to any form of past persecution, and he claimed that he feared being killed only because his brother had been killed in 1990 and his father was presumed killed after leaving a guerrilla group in 1983. The IJ's finding that there was no past persecution based on a protected ground is supported by substantial evidence, and no reasonable factfinder would be bound to find that Carpió had a well-founded fear of future persecution or would be more likely than not intentionally subjected to torture. See Ming Ming Wijono v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 868, 872 (8th Cir.2006) (applicant seeking withholding of removal had burden to show clear probability of persecution; to overcome substantial-evidence review standard, applicant must show that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find requisite probability of persecution); Bernal-Rendon v. Gonzales, 419 F.3d 877, 879, 881 (8th Cir.2005) (fear of torture by guerrilla forces, who are not government actors, will not support a claim for relief under CAT).
Accordingly, we deny the petition for review.