Case Name: Celedonia PARRENAS, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-03-18
Citations: 59 F. App'x 223
Docket Number: No. 02-70074; INS No. A75-307-085
Parties: Celedonia PARRENAS, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 59
Pages: 223–223

Head Matter:
Celedonia PARRENAS, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.
No. 02-70074. INS No. [ AXX-XXX-XXX ].
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 13, 2003.
Decided March 18, 2003.
Before KOZINSKI, GRABER and BERZON, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Parrenas has not stated a well-founded fear of persecution. Persecution is an "extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment our society regards as offensive." Ghaly v. INS, 58 F.3d 1425, 1431 (9th Cir.1995) (internal quotation marks omitted). The Philippine government's failure to provide employment or benefits to its elderly population does not rise to the level of persecution.
The Philippine government's failure to evacuate Parrenas from Nigeria is not germane because the INS seeks to return her to the Philippines, not to Nigeria, and the incident has no significant bearing on current conditions in the Philippines. Moreover, Parrenas does not allege that the government will mistreat her in any manner other than by failing to provide her with employment or benefits.
We do not reach Parrenas's claim to humanitarian asylum under Matter of Chen, 20 I. & N. Dec. 16 (1989), because she did not exhaust it. See Cortez-Acosta v. INS, 234 F.3d 476, 480 (9th Cir.2000).
PETITION DENIED.
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