Wilfred Mokoko Nasama Mukete v. Eric Holder, Jr.

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Wilfred Mokoko Nasama Mukete v. Eric Holder, Jr.

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 10-1625

WILFRED MOKOKO NASAMA MUKETE, Petitioner, v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General, Respondent.

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

Submitted:

February 15, 2011

Decided:

March 4, 2011

Before NIEMEYER and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Kevin M. Tabe, LAW OFFICES OF KEVIN M. TABE, P.C., Greenbelt, Maryland, for Petitioner. Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Allen W. Hausman, Senior Litigation Counsel, Jeffrey J. Bernstein, Office of Immigration Litigation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM: Wilfred Mokoko Nasama Mukete, a native and citizen of Cameroon, petitions for review of an order of the Board of

Immigration Appeals dismissing his appeal from the Immigration Judge's denial of his applications for relief from removal. Mukete first challenges the determination that he

failed to establish eligibility for asylum. of a determination denying eligibility for

To obtain reversal relief, an alien

"must show that the evidence he presented was so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution." (1992). INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84

We have reviewed the evidence of record and conclude

that Mukete fails to show that the evidence compels a contrary result. Having failed to qualify for asylum, Mukete cannot

meet the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. Chen v. INS, 195 F.3d 198, 205 (4th Cir. 1999); INS v.

Cardoza-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421, 430 (1987).

Finally, we uphold

the finding below that Mukete failed to demonstrate that it is more likely than not that he would be tortured if removed to Cameroon. 8 C.F.R. § 1208.16(c)(2) (2010). Accordingly, dispense with oral we deny the petition the for facts review. and We legal

argument

because

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contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

PETITION DENIED

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