Case Name: Abel SAINTILMA, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-08-18
Citations: 194 F. App'x 232
Docket Number: No. 05-60976
Parties: Abel SAINTILMA, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before SMITH, WIENER, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 194
Pages: 232–233

Head Matter:
Abel SAINTILMA, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 05-60976.
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Decided Aug. 18, 2006.
Robert H. Etnyre, Jr., Chester Joseph Makowski, Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, Houston, TX, for Petitioner.
Thomas Ward Hussey, Director, Norah Ascoli Schwarz, Elizabeth J. Stevens, Lisa Erin Johnson, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Caryl G. Thompson, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Joe A. Aguilar, Sharon A. Hudson, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service, District Directors Office, New Orleans, LA, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, Houston, TX, for Respondent.
Alberto R. Gonzales, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas, Dallas, TX, pro se.
Before SMITH, WIENER, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Abel Saintilma, a native and citizen of Haiti, petitions this court to review the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming without opinion the immigration judge's (IJ) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. Saintilma argues that the IJ applied the wrong legal standard and erroneously determined that he did not suffer past persecution and did not have a well-founded fear of future persecution. He also argues that the IJ erroneously determined that he was fleeing from general civil strife and could relocate within Haiti.
Saintilma's asylum claim is based on two incidents in which the Chimere, a group supporting former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, threatened him because Saintilma is opposed to Aristide. We conclude from a review of the record that the BIA's decision is supported by substantial evidence, and the record does not compel a conclusion contrary to the IJ's findings that the encounters with the Chimere do not rise to the level of persecution and that Saintilma failed to show a well-founded fear of future persecution. See Eduard v. Ashcroft, 379 F.3d 182, 187 (5th Cir.2004); Mikhael v. INS, 115 F.3d 299, 304 (5th Cir.1997).
The petition for review is DENIED.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.