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Date Created: 2012-05-24 20:07:15+00
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FILED
                             NOT FOR PUBLICATION                             MAY 24 2012

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JUANITA KAMAGI,                                  No. 09-72425

               Petitioner,                       Agency No. A096-362-372

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM *
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,

               Respondent.

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

                             Submitted May 15, 2012 **

Before:        CANBY, GRABER, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

       Juanita Kamagi, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the

Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal from an

immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her application for asylum and

withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
de novo questions of law and for substantial evidence factual findings. Wakkary v.

Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir. 2009). We deny the petition for review.

      Kamagi contends she suffered past persecution on the basis of an attack in

1997 and her husband’s loss of employment in 2000, and she contends she will be

persecuted in the future as an ethnic Chinese Christian. We reject Kamagi’s

request to remand her case because the BIA reasonably concluded that the IJ made

a finding of no past persecution and also made its own determination that the 1997

attack did not constitute past persecution. The record does not compel the

conclusion that the incidents Kamagi cites, even cumulatively, rise to the level of

persecution. See id. at 1059-60 (two beatings and robberies and being accosted by

hostile mob did not compel finding of past persecution); Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d

1012, 1016 (9th Cir. 2003) (termination of petitioner’s employment because of her

religious beliefs was “not the type of economic deprivation that rises to the level of

persecution”). Further, substantial evidence supports the BIA’s finding that, even

as a member of a disfavored group, Kamagi failed to establish the requisite

individualized risk of persecution. See Halim v. Holder, 590 F.3d 971, 979 (9th

Cir. 2009) (petitioner did not show individualized risk where he “failed to offer

any evidence that distinguishes his exposure from those of all other ethnic Chinese

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Indonesians”); cf. Sael v. Ashcroft, 386 F.3d 922, 927-29 (9th Cir. 2004).

Accordingly, Kamagi’s asylum claim fails.

      Because Kamagi failed to meet the lower standard of proof for asylum, her

claim for withholding of removal necessarily fails. See Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453

F.3d 1182, 1190 (9th Cir. 2006).

      PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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