Case Name: LUKARSONO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-07-09
Citations: 386 F. App'x 705
Docket Number: No. 08-70317
Parties: LUKARSONO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: ALARCÓN, LEAVY, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 386
Pages: 705–706

Head Matter:
LUKARSONO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 08-70317.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 29, 2010.
Filed July 9, 2010.
Kathleen Siok-Sien Koh, Esquire, Law Office of Kathleen S. Koh, Whittier, CA, for Petitioner.
Yanal H. Yousef, Trial, Anthony Paul Nicastro, Esquire, Trial, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: ALARCÓN, LEAVY, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Lukarsono, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence factual findings, Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009), and we grant in part and deny in part the petition for review.
In his opening brief, Lukarsono fails to challenge the agency's dispositive determination that his asylum claim was time-barred, and also does not raise any substantive challenge to the agency's denial of his CAT claim. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996) (issues not specifically raised and argued are deemed waived).
Substantial evidence supports the agency's denial of past persecution because Lu-karsono failed to show he was harmed by forces the government was unable or unwilling to control. See Castro-Perez v. Gonzales, 409 F.3d 1069, 1072 (9th Cir.2005).
Lukarsono argued to the BIA that he feared future persecution on account of his Chinese ethnicity and Christian religion. The agency did not consider Lukarsono's application for withholding of removal under the disfavored group analysis. In light of our recent decisions in Wakkary and Tampubolon v. Holder, 610 F.3d 1056, 1062-63 (9th Cir.2010), we remand for the BIA to assess Lukarsono's withholding of removal claim under the disfavored group analysis in the first instance. See Wakkary, 558 F.3d at 1067; see also INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam).
PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED in part; DENIED in part; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.