Mba v. Gonzales
Filing
920070305
Opinion
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 06-1676
HENRIETTA ANCHI MBA, Petitioner, versus ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. (A97-202-935)
Submitted:
February 16, 2007
Decided:
March 5, 2007
Before MICHAEL, GREGORY, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Jacqueline E. Ngole, Rockville, Maryland, for Petitioner. Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, James A. Hunolt, Senior Litigation Counsel, Michael G. Dashefsky, Office of Immigration Litigation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM. Henrietta Anchi Mba, a native and citizen of Cameroon, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) affirming the immigration judge's denial of her applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture. Mba challenges the Board's finding that her testimony was not credible and that she otherwise failed to meet her burden of proving her eligibility for asylum. We will reverse this decision
only if the evidence "was so compelling that no reasonable fact finder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution," Rusu v. INS, 296 F.3d 316, 325 n.14 (4th Cir. 2002) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted), and we uphold credibility determinations if they are supported by substantial evidence. Tewabe v. Gonzales, 446 F.3d 533, 538 (4th Cir. 2006). We have reviewed the administrative record and the
Board's decision and find that substantial evidence supports the adverse credibility finding and the ruling that Mba failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future See
persecution as necessary to establish eligibility for asylum.
8 C.F.R. § 1208.13(a) (2006) (stating that the burden of proof is on the alien to establish eligibility for asylum); INS v.
Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483 (1992) (same).
Moreover, as Mba
cannot sustain her burden on the asylum claim, she cannot establish
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her entitlement to withholding of removal. See Camara v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 361, 367 (4th Cir. 2004) ("Because the burden of proof for withholding of removal is higher than for asylum--even though the facts that must be proved are the same--an applicant who is ineligible for asylum is necessarily ineligible for withholding of removal under [8 U.S.C.] § 1231(b)(3)."). Mba also alleges that the Board erred in denying her protection under the Convention Against Torture. To qualify for
this protection, a petitioner bears the burden of demonstrating that "it is more likely than not that he or she would be tortured if removed to the proposed country of removal." 8 C.F.R.
§ 1208.16(c)(2) (2006).
Mba failed to make such a showing. We
Accordingly, we deny Mba's petition for review.
dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
PETITION DENIED
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