Court Opinion

ID: 4194468
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Date Created: 2017-08-09 15:01:19.969924+00
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United States Court of Appeals
                            For the Eighth Circuit
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                                No. 16-4446
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                          Arsenia Marisol Xirum-Tomas

                             lllllllllllllllllllllPetitioner

                                           v.

   Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney General of the United States of America

                            lllllllllllllllllllllRespondent
                                    ____________

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

                            Submitted: August 4, 2017
                              Filed: August 9, 2017
                                  [Unpublished]
                                  ____________

Before WOLLMAN, LOKEN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
                         ____________

PER CURIAM.

       Guatemalan citizen Arsenia Marisol Xirum-Tomas petitions for review of a
Board of Immigration Appeals decision upholding an immigration judge’s denial of
asylum and withholding of removal. Xirum-Tomas offers no basis for challenging
the determination that she established no nexus between the harm she claimed to have
suffered and any protected ground. See Gomez-Garcia v. Sessions, 861 F.3d 730, 733
(8th Cir. 2017) (standard for asylum); Malonga v. Mukasey, 546 F.3d 546, 551 (8th
Cir. 2008) (standard for withholding of removal). The petition for review is denied.
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