Case Name: Amalia Mendoza ARTIGA, aka Amalia Artiga, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-07-28
Citations: 610 F. App'x 693
Docket Number: No. 13-71688
Parties: Amalia Mendoza ARTIGA, aka Amalia Artiga, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: CANBY, BEA, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 610
Pages: 693–694

Head Matter:
Amalia Mendoza ARTIGA, aka Amalia Artiga, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 13-71688.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted July 21, 2015.
Filed July 28, 2015.
Amalia Mendoza Artiga, Los Angeles, CA, pro se.
OIL, Margaret Kuehne Taylor, Jennifer Paisner Williams, 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: CANBY, BEA, and MURGUIA, 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
Amalia Mendoza Artiga, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions pro se for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals' order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency's factual findings, Silaya v. Mukasey, 524 F.3d 1066, 1070 (9th Cir.2008), and we deny the petition for review.
Substantial evidence supports the agency's determination that, even if Mendoza Artiga's asylum application was timely, she failed to demonstrate that her claimed past persecution or feared persecution was on account of a protected ground. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992); Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 740 (9th Cir.2009) (the REAL ID Act "requires that a protected ground represent 'one central reason' for an asylum applicant's persecution"); see also Zetino v. Holder, 622 F.3d 1007, 1016 (9th Cir.2010) (petitioner's "desire to be free from harassment by criminals motivated by theft or random violence by gang members bears no nexus to a protected ground"). Because Mendoza Artiga failed to establish past persecution, she does not have a rebuttable presumption of future persecution. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13(b)(1), 1208.16(b)(1)(i). Thus, Mendoza Artiga's asylum and withholding of removal claims fail. See Zetino, 622 F.3d at 1015-16.
Substantial evidence also supports the agency's denial of Mendoza Artiga's CAT claim because Mendoza Artiga failed to demonstrate it is more likely than not she would be tortured in El Salvador by or with the consent or acquiescence of the government. See Silaya, 524 F.3d at 1073.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.