Opinion
No. 12-70927
05-21-2015
KARLA YANIRA MOREIRA-DE SANABRIA, Petitioner, v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
Agency No. A088-017-750 MEMORANDUM On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Before: LEAVY, CALLAHAN, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Karla Yanira Moreira-De Sanabria, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge's decision denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency's factual findings. Zehatye v. Gonzales, 453 F.3d 1182, 1184-85 (9th Cir. 2006). We deny the petition for review.
The BIA found Moreira-De Sanabria failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of her social group of small merchants in El Salvador. Substantial evidence supports the BIA's denial of asylum on this basis. See Zetino v. Holder, 622 F.3d 1007, 1015-16 (9th Cir. 2010); see also Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 740 (9th Cir. 2009) ("[t]he Real ID Act requires that a protected ground represent 'one central reason' for an asylum applicant's persecution"). We lack jurisdiction to consider the contention regarding other social group claims Moreira-De Sanabria did not raise to the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir. 2004). Thus, we deny the petition as to asylum.
Because Moreira-De Sanabria failed to establish eligibility for asylum, her withholding of removal claim necessarily fails. See Zehatye, 453 F.3d at 1190.
Finally, substantial evidence supports the agency's denial of CAT relief because Moreira-De Sanabria failed to show it is more likely than not she will be tortured with the consent or acquiescence of the Salvadoran government if returned to El Salvador. See Garcia-Milian v. Holder, 755 F.3d 1026, 1033-35 (9th Cir. 2014).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.