Court Opinion

ID: 8427417
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-04 03:40:02.389017+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:48:32.787317
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MEMORANDUM**
Baldev Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we deny the petition for review.
Singh’s due process and regulatory challenges to the BIA’s streamlining of his case are foreclosed by Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 852, 855 (9th Cir. 2003).
The IJ’s adverse credibility finding regarding Singh is supported by substantial evidence in the record. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000). Singh’s testimony about his abrupt departure from Jalandhar in 1995 is contradicted by a letter from his Gurudwara there, *141which states that he “participated in religious and political activities” until 1997. This inconsistency goes to the heart of Singh’s asylum claim that he fled persecution by police, and therefore suffices to uphold the adverse credibility determination. See De Leon-Barrios v. INS, 116 F.3d 391, 394 (9th Cir.1997); see also Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250, 1259 (9th Cir.2003).
By failing to qualify for asylum, Singh 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).
Singh is not entitled to CAT relief because he did not demonstrate that it is more likely than not that he would be tortured if returned to India. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.16(c); Malhi v. INS, 336 F.3d 989, 993 (9th Cir.2003).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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