Case Name: Carmen Elizabeth RIVAS-ALVAREZ, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-08-18
Citations: 668 F. App'x 197
Docket Number: No. 15-3617
Parties: Carmen Elizabeth RIVAS-ALVAREZ, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
Judges: Before LOKEN, BENTON, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 668
Pages: 197–197

Head Matter:
Carmen Elizabeth RIVAS-ALVAREZ, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
No. 15-3617
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: August 15, 2016
Filed: August 18, 2016
Daniel Scott Reeker, Kendall Law Office, Omaha, NE.
Kevin J. Conway, Karen Yolanda Drum-mond, Virginia Lum, Carl H. McIntyre, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC.
Before LOKEN, BENTON, and KELLY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Salvadoran citizen Carmen Elizabeth Rivas-Alvarez petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding an immigration judge's denial of petitioner's application for asylum and withholding of removal. After careful consideration, we conclude that substantial evidence on the record as á whole supports the agency's decision, see Quinonez-Perez v. Holder, 635 F.3d 342, 344 (8th Cir. 2011), because petitioner failed to establish that the claimed past persecution, or the claimed fear of future persecution, was on account of a protected asylum ground, see De Castro-Gutierrez v. Holder, 713 F.3d 375, 380-81 (8th Cir. 2013); Matul-Hernandez v. Holder, 685 F.3d 707, 712-13 (8th Cir. 2012); Constanza v. Holder, 647 F.3d 749, 753-54 (8th Cir. 2011).
The petition for review is denied. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.