Court Opinion

ID: 8429650
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-04 05:37:09.755202+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:48:35.272782
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MEMORANDUM **
Mulianiari Arifin, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”).
*910We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ’s finding that Arifín was ineligible for asylum since her application was not filed within a year of her last arrival to the United States. See 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(3); Molina-Estrada v. INS, 293 F.3d 1089, 1093 (9th Cir.2002).
We have jurisdiction to review the remainder of the IJ’s decision pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), and deny the petition for review. Arifin failed to establish eligibility for withholding of removal because there was no evidence that it is “more likely than not” that she will be persecuted on account of a protected ground. See Hakeem, v. INS, 273 F.3d 812, 816 (9th Cir.2001). The past harm that she suffered was inflicted by robbers to whom she could not attribute the required motive of persecution on account of a protected ground. The existence of a generalized or random possibility of persecution in the petitioner’s country is not sufficient to qualify for withholding of removal. See id.
In addition, because petitioner failed to demonstrate that it is more likely than not that she would be tortured if returned to Indonesia, she is not entitled to protection under CAT. See Kamalthas v. INS, 251 F.3d 1279, 1284 (9th Cir.2001).
PETITION DISMISSED in part and DENIED in part.

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