Opinion
No. 07-72633.
Argued and Submitted May 13, 2011.
Filed May 20, 2011.
Rana Muhammad Masood, San Francisco, CA, pro se.
Ada Elsie Bosque, Senior Litigation Counsel, Oil, DOJ-U.S. Department Of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department Of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Agency No. A097-620-974.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Rana Muhammad Masood ("Masood") petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We deny the petition. Because the parties are familiar with the factual and procedural history of the petition, we need not recount it here.
The Immigration Judge ("IJ") supported her adverse credibility determination with "specific" and "cogent" reasons going to the "heart" of Masood's claims. Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 962 (9th Cir. 2004). For example, the IJ noted inconsistencies in Masood's testimony about his political activities and knowledge: Masood twice changed his testimony about the year he became an area president; neither the constituency he claimed to have voted in, nor the candidate he claimed to have voted for, appeared in the October 2002 election results; and, in his asylum interview, Masood misidentified common abbreviations in Pakistani politics. Substantial evidence supports the IJ's findings, which go to the heart of Masood's claims. See Singh v. Ashcroft, 367 F.3d 1139, 1143 (9th Cir. 2004) (noting that petitioner's lack of political knowledge and incorrect statements supported an adverse credibility finding); Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250, 1259 (9th Cir. 2003) ("So long as one of the identified grounds is supported by substantial evidence and goes to the heart of [petitioner's] claim of persecution, we are bound to accept the IJ's adverse credibility finding.").
The remaining record evidence would not compel any reasonable factfinder to find that Masood established his eligibility for relief. See Singh, 367 F.3d at 1143.