Case Name: Neneng SONIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-07-06
Citations: 488 F. App'x 212
Docket Number: No. 10-72025
Parties: Neneng SONIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, HAWKINS, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 488
Pages: 212–214

Head Matter:
Neneng SONIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 10-72025.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 26, 2012.
Filed July 6, 2012.
Albert Chow, Lin & Chow, Monterey Park, CA, for Petitioner.
Theodore Charles Hirt, OIL, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: SCHROEDER, HAWKINS, and GOULD, 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
Neneng Sonia, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency's factual findings. Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009). We dismiss in part and grant in part the petition for review, and we remand.
We lack jurisdiction to consider Sonia's request for CAT relief because she did not exhaust this claim before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir.2004).
With respect to Sonia's asylum and withholding of removal claims, substantial evidence supports the BIA's finding that Sonia's experiences in Indonesia, including threats to burn down the school where she worked during the May 1998 riots, vandalism of a church she attended, and the receipt of phone calls and letters from listeners of her radio show expressing opposition to her teachings, even considered cumulatively, do not constitute past persecution. See Wakkary, 558 F.3d at 1059-60; Hoxha v. Ashcroft, 319 F.3d 1179, 1182 (9th Cir.2003) (unfulfilled threats and one incident of physical violence did not compel a finding of past persecution). In finding that Sonia did not establish a well-founded fear of persecution, the BIA noted that she did not argue that she is eligible for asylum under a disfavored group theory or a pattern or practice theory, and the BIA declined to analyze her claim under those theories. In fact, she raised the pattern or practice argument to the BIA, and we reject the government's argument that Sonia failed to exhaust the disfavored group claim because she effectively argued this theory in her pre-Tampubolon v. Holder, 610 F.3d 1056 (9th Cir.2010), brief to the BIA.
Accordingly, we grant the petition with respect to Sonia's asylum and withholding of removal claims, and we remand to the BIA for further proceedings consistent with this disposition. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED in part; GRANTED in part; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.