Case Name: Arturo HERNANDEZ-ORDAZ, et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-07-15
Citations: 387 F. App'x 771
Docket Number: No. 06-71263
Parties: Arturo HERNANDEZ-ORDAZ, et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER and BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and STOTLER, Senior District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 387
Pages: 771–772

Head Matter:
Arturo HERNANDEZ-ORDAZ, et al., Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 06-71263.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted June 16, 2010.
Filed July 15, 2010.
Robert Bradford Jobe, Esquire, Law Offices of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioners.
John R. Kresse, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, OIL, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Ronald E. LeFevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: SCHROEDER and BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and STOTLER, Senior District Judge.
The Honorable Alicemarie H. Stotler, Senior United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Petitioners Arturo Hernandezr-Ordaz and Tomasa L. Terrazas-Trujillo, natives and citizens of Mexico, appeal the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") decision affirming the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of asylum. Petitioners contend that the BIA erred in ruling that the harm suffered by Mr. Hernandez-Ordaz was not inflicted, at least in part, on account of political opinion. Because the record does not compel the opposite conclusion, we must affirm. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992).
The BIA and IJ properly concluded that Mr. Hernandez-Ordaz failed to establish that he was persecuted on account of political opinion, as required by 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13(b)(1), where he was attacked by a neighbor after recovering stolen building materials pursuant to his duties as neighborhood block captain.
Contrary to petitioner's argument that he qualifies as a whistleblower under our holding in Grava v. INS, 205 F.3d 1177 (9th Cir.2000), the record is devoid of any evidence demonstrating that petitioner's actions in reporting both the theft and his subsequent beating to the police were an attempt to expose government corruption, rather than merely reporting the actions of a corrupt individual. See id. at 1181. Thus, petitioner has failed to meet his burden under 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13(b)(1).
The petition for review is DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.