Case Name: Vicente Alfredo ACEVEDO-RIVAS, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-03-08
Citations: 419 F. App'x 719
Docket Number: No. 07-73313
Parties: Vicente Alfredo ACEVEDO-RIVAS, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: CANBY, FERNANDEZ, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 419
Pages: 719–720

Head Matter:
Vicente Alfredo ACEVEDO-RIVAS, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 07-73313.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Feb. 15, 2011.
Filed March 8, 2011.
Mario Acosta, Jr., Esquire, Martinez Goldsby & Associates, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
Walter Manning Evans, Esquire, Stephen J. Flynn, Senior Litigation Counsel, Jeffrey Ronald Meyer, Esquire, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, CAC-District Counsel, Esquire, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: CANBY, FERNANDEZ, and M. SMITH, 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
Vicente Alfredo Acevedo-Rivas, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' order summarily affirming an immigration judge's ("U") decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence factual findings, Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182,1184-85 (9th Cir.2006), and review de novo questions of law, including claims of due process violations, Vasquez-Z avala v. Ashcroft, 324 F.3d 1105, 1107 (9th Cir. 2003). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the IJ's determination that Acevedo-Rivas did not suffer past persecution because the murder of Acevedo-Rivas' father was not on account of a protected ground, see Gorm-ley v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1172, 1177 (9th Cir.2004) (random criminal acts bore no nexus to a protected ground), and the isolated threat did not rise to the level of persecution, see Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 936 (9th Cir.2000). Substantial evidence also supports the IJ's finding that Acevedo-Rivias did not establish a well-founded fear of future persecution because he could internally relocate within El Salvador. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13(b)(2)(ii). Accordingly, his asylum claim fails.
Because Aeevedo-Rivias failed to establish eligibility for asylum, he necessarily cannot meet the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Zehatye, 453 F.3d at 1190.
We lack jurisdiction to consider Acevedo-Rivas' contentions that the IJ applied the wrong standard when denying his CAT claim and he was not removable as charged because Acevedo-Rivas failed to exhaust these issues before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir.2004).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.