Case Name: Isaias BOCH-UYU, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-06-20
Citations: 529 F. App'x 841
Docket Number: No. 10-72351
Parties: Isaias BOCH-UYU, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: TALLMAN, M. SMITH, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 529
Pages: 841–842

Head Matter:
Isaias BOCH-UYU, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 10-72351.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 18, 2013.
Filed June 20, 2013.
Isaías Boch-Uyu, Fremont, CA, pro se.
Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Oil, Daniel I. Smu-low, Trial, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: TALLMAN, M. SMITH, and HURWITZ, 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
Isaías Boch-Uyu, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions pro se 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 relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence, Zehatye v. Gon zales, 453 F.Sd 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir.2006), and we deny the petition for review.
The record does not compel the conclusion that Boch-Uyu established extraordinary circumstances to excuse the nearly twenty-four year delay in filing his asylum application. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.4(a)(5); Dhital v. Mukasey, 532 F.3d 1044, 1049-50 (9th Cir.2008). Accordingly his asylum claim fails.
With respect to withholding of removal, substantial evidence supports the agency's finding that Boch-Uyu failed to demonstrate that two of the three incidents of harm he suffered — a shooting by a police officer and a robbery by unknown masked men — had a nexus to a protected ground. See Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 740 (9th Cir.2009) ("The Real ID Act requires that a protected ground represent 'one central reason' for an asylum applicant's persecution...."); Gormley v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1172, 1177 (9th Cir.2004) (random criminal acts do not establish persecution). Substantial evidence also supports the BIA's finding that the third incident, in which soldiers called him names, did not rise to the level of persecution. See Hoxha v. Ashcroft, 319 F.3d 1179, 1182 (9th Cir.2003). In addition, substantial evidence supports the BIA's finding that Boch-Uyu failed to establish it is more likely than not he would be persecuted if he returned to Guatemala. See Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1095-96 (9th Cir.2002) (when petitioner has not established past persecution, the agency may "rely on all relevant evidence in the record, including a State Department report, in considering whether the petitioner has demonstrated that there is good reason to fear future persecution").
Finally, substantial evidence supports the BIA's determination that Boch-Uyu is not eligible for CAT relief, because he failed to show it is more likely than not he would be tortured if removed to Guatemala. See Zheng v. Holder, 644 F.3d 829, 835-36 (9th Cir.2011).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.