Case Name: Raul E. LITONJUA Jr., Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-02-11
Citations: 637 F. App'x 305
Docket Number: No. 12-73170
Parties: Raul E. LITONJUA Jr., Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: McKEOWN and IKUTA, Circuit Judges and PRATT, Senior District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 637
Pages: 305–306

Head Matter:
Raul E. LITONJUA Jr., Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 12-73170.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 9, 2016.
Filed Feb. 11, 2016.
Zulu Ali, Zulu Abdullah Ali, Riverside, CA for Petitioner.
O.I.L., Jane Tracey Schaffner, D.O.J.U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: McKEOWN and IKUTA, Circuit Judges and PRATT, Senior District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Robert W. Pratt, Senior District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Raul E. Litonjua, Jr., appeals the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) that Litonjua is statutorily ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal as a result of being convicted of a particularly serious crime. He also appeals the BIA's denial of relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252.
Because Litonjua does not appeal the BIA's decision that he was convicted of an aggravated felony drug trafficking crime, the BIA did not err in holding that Liton-jua committed a particularly serious crime for purposes of asylum, see 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(2)(B)(i), and therefore is statutorily ineligible for relief, see 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b) (2) (A) (ii).
Nor did the BIA err in determining that Litonjua's conviction was a particularly serious crime for purposes of withholding of removal. See 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (b)(3)(B)(ii). The BIA identified and applied the correct legal standard for determining whether a drug trafficking aggravated felony is a particularly serious crime, see Matter of Y-L-, 23 I. & N. Dec. 270, 274-75 (A.G.2002), and we lack jurisdiction to reweigh the Matter of Y-L-factors on appeal or to consider the BIA's "ultimate conclusion that the . conviction . was for a particularly serious crime." See Anaya-Ortiz v. Holder, 594 F.3d 673, 680 (9th Cir.2010) (citing Delgado v. Holder, 563 F.3d 863, 871 (9th Cir. 2009)). Accordingly, the BIA did not err in denying Litonjua's application for withholding of removal because he was statutorily barred. See 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(3)(B)(ii).
Substantial evidence supports the BIA's denial of deferral of removal under CAT. Litonjua failed to demonstrate that he would be subject to discrimination in the Philippines that would rise to the level of torture, see 8 C.F.R, § 208.18(a)(2); see also Vitug v. Holder, 723 F.3d 1056, 1066 (9th Cir.2013), or that the government of the Philippines would acquiesce or turn a blind eye to any torture, see Ornelas-Chavez v. Gonzales, 458 F.3d 1052, 1059 (9th Cir .2006).
PETITION DENIED IN PART AND DISMISSED IN PART.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.