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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                         FILED
                      UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                     AUG 22 2023
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

HOSANA RIBIERO-CAMPOS, ET AL.,                   No.   22-185

               Petitioner,                       Agency Nos.
                                                 A213-075-048
    v.                                           A213-075-049
                                                 A213-075-050
MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney
General,
                                                 MEMORANDUM*
               Respondent.

                       On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                           Board of Immigration Appeals

                             Submitted August 15, 2023**
                                 Anchorage, Alaska

Before: MURGUIA, Chief Judge, and PAEZ and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges.

         Rejany Batista-de Lima Pires, her husband Weslei Pires-da Silva, and her

cousin Hosana Ribeiro-Santos1 (collectively “petitioners”) petition for review of the

         *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
         **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
1
 According to petitioners’ counsel, Hosana’s last name is “Ribeiro-Santos,” not
“Ribiero-Campos,” as listed in the caption.
Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision affirming an immigration judge’s denial of

their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the

Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Exercising jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C.

§ 1252 and reviewing the denials and the underlying factual determinations for

substantial evidence, Duran-Rodriguez v. Barr, 918 F.3d 1025, 1028 (9th Cir. 2019),

we deny the petition.

      The Board’s adverse credibility finding is supported by substantial evidence.

The agency specifically and cogently explained that petitioners’ accounts were

inherently implausible because the action that they claimed precipitated their alleged

persecution occurred after the persecution had already begun. See Lalayan v.

Garland, 4 F.4th 822, 835–38 (9th Cir. 2021); 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1)(B)(iii). In

addition, the agency cited numerous inconsistencies and unreasonable explanations

in petitioners’ testimony and documentary evidence regarding events that undergird

their claims for relief. These inconsistencies provide substantial evidence to support

the agency’s conclusion that petitioners cannot establish eligibility for relief with

credible evidence. See Rodriguez-Ramirez v. Garland, 11 F.4th 1091, 1093–94 (9th

Cir. 2021) (per curiam); Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1044 (9th Cir. 2010).

                                         ***

      PETITION DENIED.

                                          2