Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2013-12-11 01:01:17.296352+00
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FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                            DEC 10 2013

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ZHEN FENG NI,                                    No. 10-70499

              Petitioner,                        Agency No. A088-129-178

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

              Respondent.

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

                            Submitted December 4, 2013**
                                Pasadena, California

Before: WATFORD and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, Chief District
Judge.***

       1. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissed Zhen Feng Ni’s

appeal from the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of asylum because it held that Ni

        *
             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).
        ***
             The Honorable William E. Smith, Chief District Judge for the U.S.
District Court for the District of Rhode Island, sitting by designation.
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has not established past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on

account of his resistance to China’s family planning laws.

      The BIA’s conclusion that Ni has not established past persecution is

supported by substantial evidence. See Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1185

(9th Cir. 2006). Ni attempts to show past persecution based on his wife’s forced

abortion, his mental suffering following that abortion, and a fine imposed by

family planning officials. But these facts, even taken together, do not compel the

conclusion that he suffered persecution. See Jiang v. Holder, 611 F.3d 1086,

1095–96 (9th Cir. 2010); Zehatye, 453 F.3d at 1186.

      The BIA’s conclusion that Ni has not shown a well-founded fear of future

persecution is also supported by substantial evidence. Ni argues that family

planning officials may forcibly sterilize him when he returns to China. But he has

not shown why family planning officials would seek to sterilize him, and his wife

and child have remained unharmed in China since he left.

      2. Because Ni cannot establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of

future persecution, he also cannot qualify for withholding of removal. See

Gonzalez-Hernandez v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 995, 1001 n.5 (9th Cir. 2003).

      PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.