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2006 Decisions                                                                                                             States Court of Appeals
                                                                                                                              for the Third Circuit

3-13-2006

Ayoub v. Atty Gen USA
Precedential or Non-Precedential: Non-Precedential

Docket No. 05-1592

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                                                       NOT PRECEDENTIAL

                IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                         FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

                            ____________________

                                 NO. 05-1592
                            ____________________

   MARYAM AYOUB IBRAHIM AYOUB; AWADALLA SIDHOM ATTA ALLA
        SIDHOM; MARINA AWADALLA SEDHOM AWADALLA,
                            Petitioners

                                       v.

               ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES

                            ____________________

                     On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                          Board of Immigration Appeals
              (Board Nos. A95-476-626, A95-476-625, A95-476-624)
                           ______________________

                    Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a)
                               February 27, 2006
           Before: SLOVITER, FUENTES and BECKER, Circuit Judges.

                           (Filed: March 13, 2006)

                                 OPINION
                         ________________________

BECKER, Circuit Judge.
       This is a Petition by Maryam Ayoub Ibrahim Ayoub, a national and citizen of

Egypt, for Review of an Order of The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing

her appeal of an Immigration Judge’s denial of her Application for Asylum, Withholding

of Removal and Protection under the Convention Against Torture. The other petitioners

are Ayoub’s husband, Awadalla Sidhom Atta Alla Sidhom, and her daughter, Marina

Awadalla Sedhom Awadalla. The husband and daughter did not file separate asylum

applications, but are potential beneficiaries of Ayoub’s application.

       Ayoub seeks relief on the grounds that she had suffered persecution at the hands of

fanatic Muslim gangs because she was a Coptic Christian. However, her documentation

and her testimony, while long on allegations, are short on detail and devoid of any

corroboration. The BIA found that Ayoub’s testimony “lack[ed] sufficient consistency

and detail to provide a coherent account of the events allegedly resulting in [her] fear of

return to Egypt” and that Ayoub’s testimony “regarding material aspects of her claim

[was] only simplistic, vague, and generalized.” (A 4-5.) We agree. The Board also

properly noted inconsistencies in Ayoub’s accounts of her alleged persecution. Because

the parties are fully familiar with the background facts and procedural history we need not

set them forth, and limit our discussion to our ratio decidendi.

       Our standard of review is extremely deferential; we must uphold the IJ’s findings

if they are “supported by reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence on the record

considered as a whole,” INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 (1991) (quoting 8

U.S.C. § 1105a(a)(4)), and may not reject them “unless any reasonable adjudicator would

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be compelled to conclude to the contrary,” 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(4)(B). On this record we

are constrained to find that the decision of the BIA is supported by substantial evidence.

       The evidence proffered by Ayoub was not sufficiently detailed and yet our

jurisprudence demands that testimony be specific and detailed. See Abdulrahman v.

Ashcroft, 330 F.3d 587, 599 (3d Cir. 2003). Ayoub’s statements of facts lacks dates,

places, and other important details despite the IJ’s invitation to supply them.   Moreover,

in view of the inconsistencies identified by the IJ, we cannot quarrel with the Agency’s

credibility determination.   But even giving Ayoub the best of it, her testimony about

two incidents in 2001, some nonspecific statements about abuse and about having a hard

time in Egypt, and some claims about harassment of her father in 1996 and 1997 do not

compel a conclusion that Ayoub satisfied her burden of proof to show that she is entitled

to asylum. Equally important, no evidence was proffered that the alleged persecution was

by the government or by groups that the government cannot or will not control. Ayoub’s

claim is further undermined by the fact that Ayoub voluntarily returned to Egypt in 1999

and hoped to persuade her husband to live there as well; when she could not persuade

him, she came to the United States and applied for asylum.

       Ayoub’s contention that the Board failed to consider that Egyptian Muslims may

have had mixed motives in harassing her was not raised before the Board. At all events,

it would not carry the day in view of the above analysis. Additionally, Ayoub’s CAT

claim has been waived as is her claim for withholding of removal for failure to address

these on appeal.

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The Petition for Review will be denied.

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