Case Name: Tsehay Abebe ADERA, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2008-05-30
Citations: 279 F. App'x 238
Docket Number: No. 07-1327
Parties: Tsehay Abebe ADERA, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before WILKINSON and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and WILKINS, Senior Circuit Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 279
Pages: 238–239

Head Matter:
Tsehay Abebe ADERA, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 07-1327.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: May 1, 2008.
Decided: May 30, 2008.
David Allen Garfield, Law Offices of David Garfield, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Daniel E. Goldman, Senior Litigation Counsel, Shabana Stationwala, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Before WILKINSON and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and WILKINS, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petition denied by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Tsehay Abebe Adera, a native and citizen of Ethiopia, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming the Immigration Judge's denial of her applications for relief from removal.
Adera first challenges the determination that she failed to establish eligibility for asylum. To obtain reversal of a determination denying eligibility for relief, an alien "must show that the evidence he presented was so compelling that no reasonable fact-finder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution." INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We have reviewed the evidence of record and conclude that Ad-era fails to show that the evidence compels a contrary result. Having failed to qualify for asylum, Adera cannot meet the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. Chen v. INS, 195 F.3d 198, 205 (4th Cir.1999); INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421, 430, 107 S.Ct. 1207, 94 L.Ed.2d 434 (1987). Finally, we uphold the finding below that Adera failed to demonstrate that it is more likely than not that she would be tortured if removed to Ethiopia. 8 C.F.R. § 1208.16(c)(2) (2007).
Accordingly, we deny the petition for review. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
PETITION DENIED.