Case Name: Satpal SINGH, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-09-06
Citations: 449 F. App'x 607
Docket Number: No. 08-74119
Parties: Satpal SINGH, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: THOMAS, SILVERMAN, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 449
Pages: 607–608

Head Matter:
Satpal SINGH, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 08-74119.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 11, 2011.
Filed Sept. 6, 2011.
Emmanuel Eke Enyinwa, Esquire, Law Office of Emmanuel Enyinwa, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
Carol Federighi, Esquire, Senior Litigation Counsel, OIL, Jonathan Aaron Robbins, Esquire, Trial, U.S. Department of Justice, Theo Nickerson, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: THOMAS, SILVERMAN, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Satpal Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's ("IJ") order denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. Because the BIA "conducted its own review of the evidence and law rather than simply adopting the immigration judge's decision . our review is limited to the BIA's decision, except to the extent the IJ's opinion is expressly adopted." Hosseini v. Gonzales, 471 F.3d 953, 957 (9th Cir.2006) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). Reviewing the BIA's decision to deny asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT relief for substantial evidence, Kumar v. Gonzales, 444 F.3d 1043, 1049 (9th Cir.2006), we deny Singh's petition in its entirety.
The BIA held that Singh did not experience past persecution in India because he had failed to establish a nexus between the harm he allegedly suffered and a protected ground under the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A). This finding is supported by substantial evidence, because Singh did not convincingly show that the police detained him on account of religion or imputed political opinions, see Sangha v. INS, 103 F.3d 1482, 1489 (9th Cir.1997), or that the Naxalites' treatment of him rose to the level of persecution, as defined in the INA, see Ghaly v. INS, 58 F.3d 1425, 1431 (9th Cir.1995). Additionally, the BIA's determination that Singh did not establish a well-founded fear of future persecution is supported by substantial evidence, because he failed to "adduc[e] credible, direct, and specific evidence in the record of facts that would support a reasonable fear of persecution." Gu v. Gonzales, 454 F.3d 1014, 1019 (9th Cir.2006) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted).
Because Singh failed to establish eligibility for asylum, "it follows that [he] cannot meet the more stringent standard of withholding of' removal. Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 340 (9th Cir.1995). Similarly, substantial evidence supports the agency's denial of relief under CAT, because Singh has not presented evidence that shows he will more likely than not be tortured if removed to India. Nahrvani v. Gonzales, 399 F.3d 1148, 1154 (9th Cir.2005).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.