Court Opinion

ID: 8422502
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-03 22:44:31.685814+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:48:26.042866
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MEMORANDUM**
Ayalew Zelleke Biru, a native and citizen of Ethiopia, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we deny the petition. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000) (“[T]he IJ’s determination that an alien is not eligible for asylum must be upheld if supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence in the record.”).
Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that Biru did not establish eligibility for asylum based on past persecution or well-founded fear of persecution, because he did not provide “a specific, consistent, detailed story.” No incident described by Biru satisfies the standard of past persecution, an “extreme concept” encompassing “the infliction of suffering or harm.” Fisher v. INS, 79 F.3d 955, 961 (9th Cir.1996) (en banc) (quotation marks and citation omitted).
Moreover, “a petition must be denied unless the evidence [is] so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution.” See Rostomian v. INS, 210 F.3d 1088, 1089 (9th Cir.2000) (quotation marks and citation omitted). Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s finding that Biru did not meet this burden.
By failing to qualify for asylum, Biru necessarily fails to satisfy the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Alvarez-Santos v. INS, 332 F.3d 1245, 1255 (9th Cir.2003).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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