Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: ORDER Petitioner Ming Zhang Xu, a native and citizen of the People's Republic of China, seeks review of a March 4, 2010, decision of the BIA affirming the April 16, 2008, decision of Immigration Judge ("IJ") Paul A. DeFonzo, denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). In re Ming Zhang Xu, No. A094 048 617 (B.I.A. Mar. 4, 2010), aff'g No. A094 048 617 (Immig.Ct. N.Y. City Apr. 16, 2008). We assume 6) (<HOLDING>); see also Steevenez v. Gonzales, 476 F.3d 114,
Holding statements: (A) recognizing that withholding of removal and cat claims necessarily fail if the applicant is unable to show the objective likelihood of persecution needed to make out an asylum claim and the factual predicate for the claims is the same (B) recognizing that withholding of removal claims must fail if petitioner is unable to show the objective likelihood of persecution needed to make out an asylum claim and the claims are based on the same factual predicate (C) holding that where a petitioner fails to establish a claim for asylum on the merits his claims for withholding of removal under the ina and cat also necessarily fail (D) holding that when the asylum withholding of removal and cat claims are based on the same factual predicate a credibility ruling necessarily forecloses relief in each (E) holding that defeat of asylum claim on credibility grounds does not necessarily preclude relief on a cat claim
A:
(D)